Twelve miniature pigs were inoculated with an attenuated African swine fever virus to study glomerular involvement in surviving pigs. In acute phase, kidneys were severely affected and displayed a glomerular capillary thrombosis with fibrin deposition in vascular lumen, detected by immunofluorescence. Fibrin-positive deposits were progressively cleared between one to three months after infection in surviving pigs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwo patients with two and three types respectively of ground-glass hepatocyte inclusions are described. Both were hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAG) positive and received cyanamide for alcohol aversion therapy. In addition, one of them had taken benzodiazepines and barbiturates.
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