[Leafy vegetables as potential transmitters of Norovirus in Cordoba city, Argentina.].

Introduction: The Norovirus (NoV) constitute a genus within the viral family Caliciviridae, being the main cause of outbreaks of food origin among humans. Fresh vegetables are susceptible to being contaminated with these pathogens during their cultivation, harvest, transport, processing and handling. So it was intended to determine the frequency of detection of NoV in plant samples of leaves of the City of Córdoba, and adapt a method of viral concentration with polyethylene glycol for the recovery of viral particles from the surface of vegetables and characterize the genogroups of NoV detected.

Movement analysis in early infancy: Towards a motion biomarker of age.

Background: Early motor development is characterized by progressive changes in general movements paralleled by a gradual organization of the four limbs' repertoire towards the midline, as shown by computerised movement analysis.

Aims: Our aim was to test the performance of quantitative computerised kinematic indexes as predictors of post-term age in an independent cohort of typically developing subjects at fidgety age, tested cross-sectionally.

Subjects: We selected twelve low risk term infants, who were video recorded between 9 and 20 weeks (fidgety age) during one spontaneous movements session.

The term diplegia should be enhanced. Part II: contribution to validation of the new rehabilitation oriented classification.

Recent proposals of classification for cerebral palsy (CP), mainly revised for epidemiological purposes, suggest to abandon the use of the term diplegia. Conversely, in this paper data are presented to support the proposal to maintain the distinction between spastic tetraplegia and diplegia, and to subdivide this latter according to four main clinical patterns of walking observable in these children. This proposal of classification was validated by testing a group of 467 subjects with CP, of whom 213 with diplegia and 115 with tetraplegia, consecutively admitted between January 2005 and December 2006 to two national reference centers for this disability.

Kinematic characterization of functional reach to grasp in normal and in motor disabled children.

The upper limb kinematics were assessed during the execution of a functional task in healthy adults, children and in children with motor disabilities (i.e. hemiplegic cerebral palsy (HCP) and movement disorders (MD)).