Objectives: A study was conducted to evaluate the extent of a Q-fever epidemic through active case finding in the area of Vicenza (north-eastern Italy), and to identify risk factors for Q-fever in this outbreak.
Methods: 1) Descriptive epidemiology; 2) Seroepidemiological survey; 3) Case-control study. 1) Epidemic curve and maps with the location of cases.
Selective rubella vaccination in the 11 years old girls, has been carried out in the Regione Veneto (Venetian Land) since 1974. The rubella immunization rate in teh women born between 1962 and 1978, in five sanitary districts, is 68.25%; the trend of increasing vaccination is continuing.
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September 1978
The cytotoxic activity of Hodgkin serum on some isolated T and B lymphocyte populations of 10 normal subjects, 10 patients with Hodgkin disease in the acute phase and 10 patients with Hodgkin disease but in clinical and biohumoral remission was studied. The effect of citotoxic serum variously affects the two different lymphocyte populations, particularly inhibiting LIF activity of T lymphocytes, while stimulating LIF activity of B lymphocytes. The possible causes of this phenomenon are set forth as well as their clinical implications.
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