How to Educate Pregnant Women about Endocrine Disruptors?

Despite mediatization, only half of pregnant women are informed about endocrine disruptors (EDs). We wished to inquire about appropriate environmental health education procedures during pregnancy: Who, when, and how? The question stems from a comprehensive population health intervention research project. It includes qualitative studies aimed at constructing an educational program in environmental health and an accompanying assessment tool.

Endocrine Disruptors and Pregnancy: Knowledge, Attitudes and Prevention Behaviors of French Women.

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) are environmental exposure factors that are rarely reported in clinical practice, particularly during pregnancy. This study aimed to describe women's knowledge, attitudes and behaviors towards EDC exposure. A study was conducted in the French Department of Vienne between 2014 and 2016 and comprised semi-structured interviews with pregnant women, a focus group of professionals in perinatology and environmental health, and the administration of a psychosocial questionnaire comprising scores in 300 pregnant or in postpartum period women.

Preliminary results of Cytos 2 experiment.

Cytos 2 experiment, carried out during the French-Soviet manned flight (July 1982), has studied the antibiotics sensitivity of bacteria cultivated in vitro during the orbital flight. The results show an increase of the antibiotics resistance and a larger thickness of the cellular envelope for the inflight cells. The increase of antibiotics resistance can be related to a stimulating effect of space on the cell growth rate or to changes of the cellular envelope structure.

A simple method for the evaluation of antiseptic and disinfectant virucidal activity.

A simple method for evaluating the virucidal activity of water-soluble antiseptic and disinfectant products using poliovirus type 1 (Sabin strain) is described. Using a commercial concentrator, kinetic studies of four products were carried out. It was shown that 2% glutaraldehyde and 5% povidone iodine are rapidly virucidal.

[In vitro virucidal activity of antiseptics and disinfectants. III. Dilution-ultrafiltration-reconcentration technic].

The method for in vitro investigation of virucidal activity of antiseptics (ATS) of disinfectants (DSF) using dilution-ultrafiltration-reconcentration includes two phases following contact of the virus with ATS or DSF: termination of antiviral activity by sudden cold dilution, and one or more filtrations on an immersible molecule separator designed to bring the tested agent's concentration below the cytotoxic level and to reconcentrate the treated viral suspension. Advantages of this technique are the following: precision of time of contact between virus and ATS or DSF, reconcentration of the viral suspension which partly offsets the termination dilution, relative simplicity, and study of true virucidal activity. Drawbacks are: inappropriateness for some agents such as povidone-iodine, and, in some instances, unreliability of immersible separators.

[Comparison of 2 antiseptic soaps used for preoperative showers].

This study was carried out in cardiovascular surgery wards and a single operating room. Two different antiseptic scrubs, A and B, were used for two showers given 48 and 24 hours respectively prior to surgery. A scrub (chlorhexidine digluconate 40 mg/ml) was used in 61 patients and B scrub (benzalkonium chloride 5 mg/ml) in 52, for a total of 113 participants.

[Haemagglutinins and adhesins of Escherichia coli strains isolated from urine: inhibitory effect of sub-inhibitory concentrations of tetracycline, doxycycline and minocycline. Preliminary results ].

The present work concerned the study of the sub-minimal inhibitory doses of tetracyclin, doxycyclin and minocyclin on both hemagglutinating activity and adhesion capacity demonstrated in three E. coli strains isolated from urine. Two different types of hemagglutinins, mannose-resistant (HAMR) and mannose-sensitive (HAMS), were associated in two strains; HAMR was present in the third strain.

Comparison between oral and systemic antibiotics and their combined use for the prevention of complications in colorectal surgery.

Ninety patients were included in this prospective randomized trial. Each required electric colorectal surgery and was prepared for operation with oral preoperative antibiotic therapy, systemic peroperative therapy, or by a combination of both. The number of each type of septic postoperative complication and their total did not differ between the group treated by oral antibiotics prior to operation and the group treated peroperatively with systemic antibiotic therapy.

Malignant external otitis and polymorphonuclear leukocyte migration impairment. Improvement with ascorbic acid.

Malignant external otitis (MEO) is a rare disease due to a Pseudomonas infection of the external ear occurring in an elderly patient with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. Its high mortality raises the question of an alteration of the defense mechanisms of the body. A 58-year-old man was affected with MEO, and after several months of unsuccessful treatment, a study of the function of his polymorphonuclear neutrophil leukocytes (PMNs) revealed a defect of the migration capability.

[Epstein-Barr virus infections in pregnancy. The serological profile of active infections in pregnant women. Their possible relationship with perinatal mortality (author's transl)].

A significant number of cases of deaths and of perinatal misfortunes are still of unknown origin. The role of pathological infection is probably important in these cases and particularly those in the Torch group of viruses, and among these, as has been shown by epidemiological and virological tests, the Epstein-Barr virus (E.B.

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in human pathology. II. Serologic profiles of EBV infections.

Antibodies to EBV induced intracellular antigens, (VCA, EA, NA) and VCA-IgM antibodies have been investigated to define EBV serologic profile of 245 individuals. This profile was a first studied in EBV primary infections. In infectious mononucleosis, the efficiency of EBV serodiagnosis is lower than Paul Bunnel Davidsohn reaction (PBD) : primary infection profile is only characterised in 80% of the positive PBD infectious mononucleosis (IM).