[Reactogenicity associated to the intradermally administered inactivated poliovirus vaccine with a needle-free injector].

Introduction: As the goal of poliomyelitis eradication is about to be accomplished, the need for an affordable and appropriate inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) for use in developing countries has become a target for WHO.

Objective: To evaluate the reactogenicity of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine.

Method: An experimental-type multicenter study was conducted, as part of a Phase I-II controlled clinical randomized and blinded assay, in 471 healthy infants of both sexes born in July and August 2006 in Camagüey province.

[Impact of infections on mortality in children with cancer].

A study of the role infections play in the death of 29 children with cancer was conducted from 1983 to 1988. An infection was the main cause of death in twelve patients and was associated with hemorrhage in nine. Five of the patients were free of infection at the time of their death.

Enterobacterial common antigen in the urine from children with cancer.

An inhibition of immunohemolysis assay was used to detect the enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) in urine samples from 40 children with cancer. Seven patients were excluded because bacterial contamination of urine. Thirty of the remaining 33 sterile samples gave an ECA-positive reaction.