[First centenary of Whipple's disease].

Whipple's disease is an infrequent multisystemic infection caused by a gram-positive bacterium: Tropheryma whippelii, which after several studies has been characterized as an actinomiceto por 16Sr RNA. It occurs with multiple symptoms, the principal of which are diarrhea, weight loss, stomach pain and arthralgias. Arthritis or artralgia may appear as an isolated symptom and eventually through the years additional digestive, cardiovascular and/or neurological symptoms arise.

[Identification of Amaranthus palmeri pollen allergens comparing recognizing pattern between allergic and non-allergic].

Background: Amaranthus palmed pollen is an important allergenic agent in Mexico. A high proportion of subjects allergic to pollen grains are allergic to this species. In this study, we analyzed the different response of three groups: one of patients allergic to A.

[Immunology and BCG therapeutics].

The importance in the study of bacillus of Calmette-Guérin or BCG is related to several functions derived from its influence on the immunological system, between which it is found the prevention of the dissemination of the tubercular bacillus, its utilization as immunomodulator in some oncologic illness (as vesical cancer) in order to avoid post-surgical recidiva or in some forms of immunotherapy, as the cytokine (interferon alpha and interleukin-2); in addition, BCG vaccine is supplied like an immunomodulator in treatment of melanoma. It is important to continue with the study of the BCG strains for its great utility in the treatment of various diseases, example of the previous is the Tice strain, which is used in the superficial cancer of bladder and in the production of new and more powerful vaccines for the protection of tuberculosis.

[Allergy and neurotoxicity induced by bee sting. Case report and literature review].

Under the heading of this subject we deal with stings by arthropods, making of bees, commenting on the composition of the poisons and the different local and general reactions that are differences that exist between the stings The venom contains many biologically active components such as melitin, phospholipase A2, apamin, mast cell degranulation peptide, hyaluronidase, histamine, and dopamine. That neurotoxic venom secretory phospholipases A2 (sPLA2) have specific receptors in brain membranes called N-type receptors that are likely to play a role in the molecular events leading to neurotoxicity of these proteins. The sPLA2 found in honeybee venom is neurotoxic and binds to this receptor with high affinity.

[Effects of methimazole on the evolution of the allergic rhinitis of patients with Graves' disease].

Background: The methimazole has long been used for treating Graves' disease to decrease thyroid hormone production and obtain a thyroid normofunction, but this drug has also immunosuppressive and immunomodulation effects.

Objective: To analyze in patients with Graves' disease treated with methimazole and allergic rhinitis, the clinical evolution of the allergic rhinitis with the immunosuppressive and immunomodulation effects of the methimazole.

Patients And Methods: A comparative and observational study was done in the Mexico's General Hospital, in twenty-six patients with Graves' disease treated with methimazole 10 mg, thyroid profile was done, and when subjects obtained a thyroid normofunction continued with the same doses of methimazole and received also 12.

[Peripheral anticholinergic syndrome].

This is a case report of a woman of 38 years old, studied and analyzed at the service of allergy and immunology with clinical manifestations of allergic rhinitis; studies of laboratory, cabinet and intradermal test were made to corroborate this diagnosis and the treatment with specific hyposensitization, oral antihistaminines and inhaled steroids was started. Two years later the patient referred urinary retention without important antecedents, so, a peripheral anticholinergic syndrome (PAS) was suspected, a urodynamic test study was carried out consisting in a uroflujometry, static and dynamic urethral profile, cystometry, flow pressure study and electromyography, which diagnosed low urinary obstruction (functional) and vesical sphincter pseudodysfunction, demonstrating the PAS associated with oral antihistamines.

[Reflections about allergic and crossed reactions to sulphonamides and drugs with radical-sulphonamide].

In the daily pharmacological therapy, some compounds may cause eventually allergic hypersensitivity reactions generating adverse effects. The objective of this study and its reflections has been to recommend caution, being prudent when expressing an opinion on risks and benefits of drugs themselves or some of their radicals that may contain because this attitude might produce a unsuitable concern. Drugs hypersensitivity (an unexpected pharmacological effect) may resemble a true allergic reaction but without the implication of IgE immunoglobulin.