Drawing the Line between Sick and Healthy: Normality Constructions in Health Communication Contexts.

In this paper we examine how traditional views of normality are negotiated, indorsed and resisted when talking about children with heart defects. Having as a starting point an ethnographic project that aimed to study knowledge construction when being pregnant or having a child with a heart defect, we focus on argumentation put forward by clinicians and parents in order to understand the forms that normality takes in relation to children's health and illness and the way that it is constructed argumentatively and linguistically. More specifically, we draw data from recorded doctor-patient consultations, ethnographic interviews and entries from family blogs and forums and focus on those instances where normality is negotiated as a means of providing a medical consultation or of taking and motivating decisions about the child's health and everyday life.

Communication of support and critique in Swedish virtual community threads about prenatal diagnoses of fetal anomalies.

Background: A prenatal diagnosis of a fetal anomaly involves acute grief and psychological distress. The Internet has the potential to provide virtual support following the diagnosis. The overall aim was to explore communication of support and critique in Swedish virtual community threads about prenatal diagnoses of fetal anomalies.

Early detection of cytomegalovirus in cell culture by a new monoclonal antibody, CCH2.

A CMV monoclonal antibody, CCH2, produced in this laboratory was evaluated for rapid detection of CMV. Two staining procedures, immunofluorescence and an immunoenzymatic technique using biotin-streptavidin peroxidase, were compared. The CCH2 monoclonal antibody was used to demonstrate early CMV antigen in cell culture 24 h after inoculation of 598 urine samples from kidney transplanted patients by indirect immunofluorescence in comparison with virus isolation.

Characterization of two genome types of adenovirus type 31 isolated in Stockholm during 1987.

The authors isolated during 1987 seven adenovirus type 31 (Ad31) within a 9-month period. The isolates were obtained from urine, throat, and feces, implying a systemic spread of the infection. Most patients displayed gastrointestinal symptoms, but some had respiratory symptoms and fever.