Combination therapy for patients with a developmental dysphasia: selected approaches based on special education, rehabilitation and psychology in a systematic case study.

Objective: The paper deals with the possibilities of the development and the support of individuals with developmental dysphasia with regard to the legislative framework of the Czech Republic in the field of education and presents the results of a systematic case study of a child patient diagnosed with developmental dysphasia (according to ICD-10; F80.1 and F80.2).

Nonpharmacological Compensation of Aggressive Behavior of Individuals with Moderate Intellectual Disability and Behavioral Disorders-A Case Study.

The article discusses issues associated with the manifestations of aggressive behavior in an individual diagnosed with moderate intellectual disability and behavioral disorders (according to ICD-10; F7; F711-moderate intellectual disability, significant impairment of behavior requiring attention or treatment). In the research survey, we focused on a client corresponding with relevant features. The research was carried out at the beginning of hospitalization, ongoing hospitalization, and the end of hospitalization, followed by a recommendation to limit the legal capacity of the client and his placement in a residential care home.

[Aspects of positive feelings of pregnancy].

Objective: To analyze the relation of positive feeling in pregnancy with intentional conception, to analyze the relation between feeling the pregnancy by the women and her partner.

Type Of Study: A questionnaire investigation in a representative cohort.

Setting: Ward for Preventive and Social Pediatrics, Medical Faculty, Masaryk University, Brno.

Mortality during winter smog episodes 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1993 in the Czech Republic.

Objectives: Severe air pollution episodes were recorded during the 1980s and early 1990s in the Czech Republic as a result of widespread combustion of brown coal. A population-based retrospective study investigated the relationship between air pollution and daily mortality in six highly polluted areas of the Czech Republic during smog episodes in 1982, 1985, 1987, and 1993.

Methods: Total daily mortality, mortality by gender and age, cardiovascular mortality, respiratory mortality, data on weekly incidence of acute respiratory diseases and daily mean concentrations of sulphur dioxide and suspended particulate matter were used in the model.

JM9 strains, a new type of group B streptococci from Japan.

JM9 strains isolated from human carriers and patients in several districts of Japan, represent a new serotype of group B streptococci (GBS, Streptococcus agalactiae). They were first detected in 1983 but are meanwhile prevailing among all other GBS serotypes in Japan. Outside of Japan, strains of this type have not been reported until now.

[Differentiation of serologic group A streptococci from group C and G using disks with various bacitracin levels].

It was revealed that a diameter of the inhibition zone of 10 mm or more surrounding a disk with 0.04 U bacitracin differentiates reliably strains of the serological group A form strains of group C and G with the exception of 7.3% strains of group C and G with a high susceptibility for bacitracin.

Immunochemistry of capsular type polysaccharide and virulence properties of type VI Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococci).

The immunochemistry of capsular type polysaccharide and virulence characteristics of group B streptococci (GBS), type VI, were studied. By high-pressure anion-exchange chromatography and pulsed amperometric detection, as well as by 13C nuclear magnetic resonance analysis, both extracellular and cell-bound polysaccharides were found to contain glucose, galactose, and N-acetylneuraminic acid in the molar ratio of 2:2:1, respectively. At variance with all other GBS serotypes described to date (Ia, Ib, II, III, IV, and V), no N-acetylglucosamine was present, whatever the source of the material (secreted or cell bound; reference or clinical isolate).

Structural determination and immunochemical characterization of the type V group B Streptococcus capsular polysaccharide.

The type V capsular polysaccharide of group B Streptococcus has been isolated and purified, and its repeating unit structure determined. The native type V polysaccharide contains D-glucose, D-galactose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose, and sialic acid in a molar ratio of 3:2:1:1. Methylation analysis and 1H NMR and 13C NMR analysis of the native type V polysaccharide and of its specifically degraded products permitted the determination of the repeating unit structure of the type V polysaccharide: [formula: see text] The type V polysaccharide has certain structural features in common with other group B streptococcal capsular polysaccharides but is antigenically distinct: no immunologic cross-reactivity was observed between type V and types Ia, Ib, II, III, or IV polysaccharides.

[Streptococcus group B in a maternity home with a decentralized system of newborn infant care (of the mother-child type)].

In a maternity hospital with the decentralized system of infant care the presence of the group B streptococcal colonization of puerperants (13.0 +/- 4.5%), newborn infants (25.

Postnatal development of plasma FFA concentration and its influence of the separation of bilirubin from albumin binding in newborns.

The first part of the study gives data on the FFA concentrations, glycaemia and energy quotient in newborns with uncomplicated postnatal adaptation in the first 2 weeks of life. The study was carried out in a group of 69 full-term and 69 pre-term infants at the age of 24, 48, 72, 96 hours and 7 and 14 days. Although it is not the case of consecutive values of FFA concentrations in plasma, a certain developmental trend can be suggested.

[Biological properties of Streptococcus group B: the interrelations of the virulence in mice, the adhesion to human epithelial cells and the production of type-specific antigen].

The results presented in this work confirm the possibility of selecting the subpopulations of group B streptococci by the passage of these microorganisms through mice. This process was accompanied by the accumulation of cells with a high level of type-specific antigen (TSA). The passage of group B streptococci in the presence of type-specific antibodies led to the selection of avirulent microorganisms with low TSA production and high adhesiveness.

Immuno-electronmicroscopic demonstration of capsules on group-B streptococci of new serotypes and type candidates.

The location of type polysaccharides on the cells of reference strains of group-B streptococci of serotypes IV and V and new type candidates NT6 and 7271 was investigated by electronmicroscopy of the bacteria after incubation with homologous type-specific antiserum. A distinct capsular layer was found on the surface of the cells of all these strains. Sialic acid, an integral part of all the conventional type polysaccharides of group-B streptococci, was also detected in all the strains examined.

Adherence of vaginal and pharyngeal strains of group B streptococci to human vaginal and pharyngeal epithelial cells.

In vitro tests for adherence to human vaginal and pharyngeal epithelial cells were used to study the problem of tissue-specific tropism in group B streptococci (GBS). Twenty-two vaginal or pharyngeal clinical isolates of GBS (serotypes Ia, Ib, II, and III) were used. No significant differences in adherence to vaginal and pharyngeal epithelial cells were found between GBS from both sources: statistical analysis furnished no evidence for tissue-specific tropism.

A search for new group-B streptococcal serotypes.

New serotypes were sought among 165 clinical isolates of group-B streptococci that were untypable by antisera for the conventional types Ia, Ib, II and III. The strains were tested for sialic acid, an integral component of the group-B streptococcal type-polysaccharides; trypsin-treated bacteria were tested by slide-agglutination with the sialic-acid-specific lectin from the snail Cepaea hortensis. Sialic acid was detected in 96 of the strains; in 95 of these, new type antigens were identified serologically (type IV, 52; provisional type V, 34; candidate type NT6, seven; provisional type V and candidate type NT6, one; candidate type 7271, one); the remaining strain was found to possess a small amount of Ia antigen.

The adhesin structures involved in the adherence of group B streptococci to human vaginal cells.

The adherence of group B streptococci (GBS) of serotypes Ia, II and III to human vaginal cells was studied in vitro. The adherence was not dependent on the viability of bacteria; killing of GBS by UV irradiation or glutaraldehyde treatment did not inhibit the adherence. Killing of GBS by heating to 56 degrees C for 1 h led to a pronounced decrease of adherence, demonstrating the thermosensitivity of the GBS structures involved.

Worldwide distribution of two new serotypes of group B streptococci: type IV and provisional type V.

The candidates for new types proposed by the laboratories of H. W. Wilkinson, J.

[Adhesion of group B streptococci to vaginal epithelial cells].

The work presents the results of studies on the optimum and standard conditions for the in vitro determination of the adhesiveness of group B streptococci with epithelial cell suspensions. Vaginal epithelium has proved to be the most convenient and adequate system for studying the adhesiveness of group B streptococci. The optimum infective dose of these bacteria has been found to range from 50 to 200 cocci per cell.

[Submicroscopic aspects of the adherence of group B streptococci to vaginal epithelial cells].

The submicroscopic structure of surfaces in the streptococci of group B, type III (strain 13/63) and the ultrastructure of the interaction of this streptococcus strain with human vaginal cells were studied. The surface of the majority of B streptococci was smooth after using the conventional fixing techniques of electron microscopy; however, about 25% of streptococcal cells had an additional layer of filamentous protrusions on their surface. A marked layer of capsular material was visualized by means of the preincubation of this streptococcus strain with a type-specific antiserum.

Prospective study on streptococcal pharyngitis among a town population.

A one-year-round study on pharyngitis incidence among the general population of a town (24,300 inhabitants) was carried out. All patients, with pharyngitis who visited health centres were examined clinically and mcirobiologically. The overall pharyngitis incidence rate and the streptococcal pharyngitis incidence rate were, respectively, 8.

Findings of serotypes of group B streptococci in human and bovine sources.

Five hundred and fifty-five strains of S. agalactiae of human or bovine origin were serologically typed. In human strains, serotype Ia was the most frequent irrespective of the source and kind of cultivation material, but serotype R was very frequent in urine.

Group B streptococci in the female genital tract and nosocomial colonization of newborns.

In a long-term study, rates for group B streptococcus prevalence in the vagina and/or anus of nonpregnant women and pregnant women in the first trimester and in the second trimester were found as follows: 7.1%, 7.3% and 5.