Rubella in Jerusalem. 2. Clinical and serologic findings in children with congenital rubella.

Forty-eight children born with clinical and serologic manifestations of congenital rubella were followed for a three-year period. Expanded rubella syndrome, multiple anomalies and single defects were found, mostly in the child's first year of life. Some new organic problems were found at a later age in children who had initially been healthy but who had been followed up because of their high antibody levels to rubella.

Serum and CSF antibody levels to herpes simplex type 1, measles and rubella viruses in patients with schizophrenia.

Serum and CSF specimens from 12 schizophrenic patients and 10 non-psychiatric controls were tested for herpes simplex type 1 virus neutralizing antibody and for measles and rubella haemagglutination inhibiting antibodies. There were no significant differences in the distribution of virus antibody titres in serum or CSF specimens between the patients and the controls. The possible aetiological role of viruses or virus-like agents in schizophrenia and some methodological aspects are discussed.

Rubella in Jerusalem. 1. Seroepidemiologic findings in children born after the 1972 rubella epidemic.

Nine hundred and sixty-nine babies born after a severe rubella epidemic were tested at the age of eight months for the presence of hemagglutination inhibition antibodies to the disease. There were 208 (21.9%) seropositive babies with titers of greater than or equal to 1:16.

Clinical virology in family practice: epidemiological and clinical observations of an outbreak of Coxsackievirus B type 1 infection in a kibbutz.

In the late summer and early fall of 1975, a febrile illness broke out in Kibbutz Tsorah, a communal settlement situated in the Jerusalem District, affecting 148 (33 percent) of its 446 members. Sickness was recorded in 107 (54 percent) of 198 children under 14 years of age and in 41 (17 percent) of the remaining 248 members of the kibbutz. In addition to fever, gastrointestinal and upper respiratory symptoms were predominant.

Early results of an extensive rubella epidemic.

The extensive rubella epidemic which occurred in Israel in 1972, had a considerable impact on the population at risk: 1. The spread of rubella infection into the community strongly influenced the extent of legal abortions: (a) 1 x 5 as many abortions for all causes were recorded in the epidemic year, as compared to the average number recorded in the three-year pre-epidemic period; (b) about 20 per cent of all abortions were associated with a history of exposure to rubella in the first months of pregnancy. 2.