[Detection of IgG antibodies with immunofluorescent antibody technique in human trichomoniasis].

The indirect fluorescent antibody(IFA) test was used to detect serum IgG and IgM antibodies to Trichomonas vaginalis in 31 vaginal trichomoniasis, 7 candidiasis and in 20 non-infected healthy wonem with antigen prepared from axenic culture of Trichomonas vaginalis isolated from vulvovaginitis patient. The results were as follows: In 31 vaginal trichomoniasis the positive reactions of IgG antibody were 27 in the 1/8 dilution or higher and 4 in the 1/4 dilution whereas in healthy women the reaction showed signigicantly low as in the 1/4 dilution of below. The sensitivity and specificity of IFA test for IgG antibody to trichomonad antigen in this study were 87.

[Effect of flubendazole against Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichocephalus trichiurus and Enterobius vermicularis in infected children].

Effectiveness of flubendazole, a newly introduced as an anthelmintic in Korea, was evaluated in 28 ascariasis, 28 whipworm infections and 17 pinworm infections in primary school children. All patients were orally given by flubendazole of 500 mg once. Stools for roundworm and whipworm and anal swabs for pinworm infections were examined both before and 25 days after treatment.

[A Case Of Human Thelaziasis In Korea].

This paper deals with the 11th case of human thelaziasis in Korea. The patient was a 25-year-old woman with complaints of foreign body and itching sensation of rihgt eye, who had lived in Seoul. The slender milky-white nematodes extracted from lower conjunctival sac, one male and one female in respect, were confirmed as Thelazia callipaeda Railliet and Henry, 1910.