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Gentamicin (GM) was intramuscularly injected to 16 children with various infectious disease (1 septicemia, 1 purulent meningitis, 4 bronchopneumonia, 1 pyothorax, 3 pyelonephritis, 2 acute cystitis and 4 RITTER'S dermatitis). The results obtained are as follows: 1. The excellent and good clinical results were noted in all patients except for an indeterminate case with bronchopneumonia because of the concomitant therapy with CEZ. The effective rate was 100.0%. This was possibly because of quite high susceptibility (See Article) of all isolates to gentamicin. 2. Doses of GM were adjusted depending on the style of infectious diseases. The satisfactory clinical results were obtained in some cases by increasing its recommended dosage to about 5-8 mg per kg per day. 3. No kidney dysfunction, liver dysfunction, the 8th cranial nerve damage, etc. were observed by administering 5 to 8 mg per kg per day for at maximum 18 days, in this clinical trial. 4. It has been indicated in this clinical trial that GM is worthy to be used as a first-choice drug in chemotherapy of infectious diseases caused by Staphylococcus, gram-negative bacillus, etc., especially in patients who are hypersensitive to penicillin and cephalosporin derivatives. However, further study would be required for the safety of increase in its dosage and duration of administration.
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PMID:[Further study on gentamicin in pediatrics (author's transl)]. 13 69

From 1980 to 1988 235 koalas were necropsied and 67 were found to have urinary tract disease. Six affected koalas out of 48 were derived from wildlife parks around Sydney while 61 of 187 were derived from free living populations on the central and north coasts of New South Wales. Sixteen had cystitis alone, 5 had cystitis and associated renal disease only, 16 females had cystitis with genital disease, 23 had urinary disease in combination with other systemic disease and 7 had renal disease only. Overall 49 animals had cystitis (30 females and 19 males; 47 being free living) with 12 of these having renal extension (all free living). Cystitis tended to be active but chronic while associated renal disease was mainly designated as hydronephrosis and pyelonephritis. Other forms of renal disease included lymphosarcoma, oxalate nephrosis, acute and chronic nephritis, and microabscessation related to septicaemia. Female genital disease associated with cystitis was commonly vaginitis and metritis. Paraovarian cysts were detected with and without metritis. Other diseases occurring with urinary tract disease included conjunctivitis, dermatitis/stomatitis, pneumonia and hepatic disease. The higher prevalence of urinary tract disease in free living koalas, especially cystitis, is in contrast to captive koalas and may reflect the interaction between disease cause and habitat.
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PMID:A survey of urinary tract disease in New South Wales koalas. 273 Apr 73

Individually housed male AKR/NCrlBR mice used in a chronic inhalation experiment were noted to develop a severe obstructive genitourinary condition. The mouse urologic syndrome (MUS) had one or more of the following features: bladder distension; peripreputial urine staining, alopecia, and edema; paraphimosis; urethral blockage; ulcerative balanophosthitis; hydronephrosis; pyelonephritis; rectal prolapse; and perineal ulcerative dermatitis. MUS was less severe and less prevalent in similarly housed B6C3F1/CrlBR and NIH-Swiss mice used in the same experiment. Epidemiologic evidence within the animal facility restricted the syndrome to the inhalation toxicology area. The effects of intermittent water deprivation as well as wire caging on the development of MUS were studied because these conditions were only utilized in the inhalation facility. Male AKR/NCrlBR mice, caged individually in suspended wire caging or kept isolated in polystyrene shoebox style cages containing wire floorwalk bottoms, all developed MUS within 16 weeks. Mice which were housed directly on hardwood bedding in identical plastic caging remained free of the syndrome, as did castrated males which were kept in suspended wire cages. Water deprivation was not found to be a major contributing factor to the development of the condition, but was found to augment its severity. We concluded that although MUS is probably multifactorial in etiology, housing susceptible animals on wire bottom caging may exacerbate the incidence and severity of the condition in certain strains of male mice.
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PMID:Urologic syndrome associated with wire caging in AKR mice. 319 55

Administration of progestins in the dog may result in overproduction of growth hormone, suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis, and insulin resistance. In this paper we present a comparison of the histological findings in control dogs and dogs treated with either medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) or proligestone (PROL). Depot preparations of MPA or PROL were administered (SC) at 3-week intervals in two groups of seven ovariohysterectomized beagle dogs, after which three dogs of each group were killed. After a 6-month period without hormone treatment during which recovery was studied, the remaining dogs received five additional injections at the same interval and were subsequently killed. Tissue samples of four intact female beagle dogs served as controls. Progestin treatment resulted in atrophy of the adrenal cortex. In both MPA- and PROL-treated dogs, the thickness of the combined zona fasciculata and reticularis was significantly smaller than in control animals. In the mammary glands of progestin-treated dogs there were well developed alveoli and normal ducts adjacent to foci of hyperplastic ductular epithelium. Five dogs in each treatment group had developed benign mammary tumours which varied from simple tubular and papillary adenomas to benign complex and mixed tumours, whereas no mammary tumours were observed in the control animals. In each treatment group, steroid-induced hepatopathy was observed in the liver of three dogs. Vacuolation of the cells of the islets of Langerhans and the epithelium of the intercalated ducts was present in two dogs of each treatment group and was only observed after the second series of progestin administrations. Incidental findings included chronic pyelonephritis, aspecific dermatitis, and mucinous dysplasia of the gall bladder. No abnormalities were found in sections of spleen, lung, brain, or pituitary gland. There were no significant differences in the frequencies of the various abnormalities between MPA- and PROL-treated dogs. Our findings correspond with the clinical and biochemical results after treatment of dogs with MPA and PROL. The high incidence of mammary tumours might be associated with our recent finding that in the dog progestins induce ectopic production of growth hormone in the mammary gland. The dog might be a good model for further studies on hormonally induced breast cancers.
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PMID:Comparison of the histological changes in the dog after treatment with the progestins medroxyprogesterone acetate and proligestone. 875 Dec 73

Bacteriologic examination of 1589 patients showed that, aside from C. diphtheriae, 11% of acute upper respiratory tract infections were caused by other Corynebacterium species. Such bacteria can cause infections of various localizations (bronchitis, pyelonephritis, urethritis, colpitis, dermatitis, arthritis, etc.). C. pseudodiphtheriticum and C. xerosis were isolated from clinical specimens most frequently. Corynebacterium spp. have adhesive, hemolytic, hemagglutinating, and neuraminidase activity; some of them are highly pathogenic. The most virulent, were following species: C. diphtheriae, C. pseudotuberculosis, C. urealyticum, and C. ulcerans. Corynebacterium non diphtheriae were frequently isolated from clinical specimens in association with staphylococci and streptococci. In such cases, factors of pathogenicity and resistance to antibiotics were more pronounced. Strains isolated with association with other bacteria have lost susceptibility to tetracycline, oleandomycin, penicillin, and erythromycin. It is important to be vigilant about bacteria from Corynebacterium genus in clinical settings, and thoroughly study their biologic characteristics, especially in immunocompromised patients.
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PMID:[Etiologic role of Corynebacterium non diphtheriae in patients with different pathology]. 1803 38

Cutaneous gummatous tuberculosis (TB) is an uncommon subtype of cutaneous TB that can be seen in notably immunocompromised individuals. We report a case of cutaneous gummatous TB in an immunosuppressed kidney transplant patient. A 60-year-old Cambodian woman presented with fever attributed to recurrent pyelonephritis while on immunosuppressive medications 7 months after kidney transplant. She underwent a bilateral native nephrectomy and was found to have peritoneal nodules, which revealed caseating granulomas and acid-fast bacilli (AFB) consistent with kidney and peritoneal TB. Anti-TB therapy was initiated, resulting in symptom resolution. Subsequently, the Tuberculosis Control Program at the Department of Health (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) discontinued her medications due to severe thrombocytopenia. During this time, she was closely monitored with blood draws. Approximately 10 weeks after treatment initiation, she noted recurrent fever and a painful, dull red, subcutaneous nodule on the right side of the flank. Biopsy showed an inflammatory infiltrate within the deep dermis indicative of suppurative granulomatous dermatitis. Ziehl-Neelsen stain demonstrated rare AFB within the cytoplasm of macrophages. The patient was restarted on anti-TB therapy resulting in the resolution of her fever and skin lesions. This case illustrates a noteworthy example of a rare form of cutaneous gummatous TB, which should be considered and included in the differential for cutaneous lesions in an immunosuppressed patient.
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PMID:Cutaneous gummatous tuberculosis in a kidney transplant patient. 3089 97