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The authors studied imprints of tonsillar sections stained both by the method of Pappeneheim and that of Stockinger and Kellner taken from 205 patients with chronic non-complicated tonsillitis, chronic tonsillitis with tonsillocardiac syndrome and chronic tonsillitis with rheumatism, the rheumatic process being of various stages of activity. A comparison of the preparations received shows that the organism's immunologic reformation resulting from the rheumatic process is characterised by growing reticulolymphoblastic, plasmocellular and macrophage reactions and vivification of sinuslymphocytopoiesis which proved to be in strict correlation with the extent of rheumatic activity.
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PMID:[Cellular composition of palatine tonsil imprints in the differential diagnosis of uncomplicated chronic tonsillitis with a tonsillo-cardiac syndrome and chronic tonsillitis with rheumatism]. 98 17

A sandwich ELISA system was used for the study of the identification of antigenic group A polysaccharide determinants by antibodies in a suspension of streptococcus cells with varying degrees of lysis. Antibodies were able to identify less than 0.01% of antigenic A polysaccharides determinants in intact streptococcal cells. It is concluded that A polysaccharide is a marker of the destroyed group A streptococcus cells. The circulation of group A polysaccharide was examined in the sera of patients with rheumatism and acute streptococcal tonsillitis. Group A polysaccharide was detectable more frequently in rheumatic patients, as compared to those with tonsillitis, and circulated for long periods of time in the vascular network. Avidity and titres of antibodies to group A polysaccharide were determined in rheumatic patients with different degrees of antigenemia. In cases of marked antigenemia, correlation was disrupted between the titre and avidity of antibodies to group A polysaccharides.
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PMID:[Use of immunoenzyme analysis for determining the persistence and biodegradation of antigens in the cell wall of group A streptococci in patients with rheumatism]. 247 87

The level of "A" and "B" streptococcal antigens in the circulating immune complexes, structure and the level of antibodies to the group specific streptococcal polysaccharides in the patients with minimal activity and latent course rheumatism and in the patients with rheumatoid arthritis of different duration is studied. It is shown that the concentration of the "A" group streptococcal antigens in the circulating immune complexes is higher in rheumatic patients, than in healthy subjects and tonsillitis patients. The high "B" group streptococcal antigen content is found in the patients with rheumatoid arthritis. A high titer of antibodies to streptococcal polysaccharides of "B" group, especially in the synovial fluid was revealed. A possibility of streptococcal antigens and their antibodies' participation in the development of pathologic process is discussed. A value of obtained indexes in the diagnosis of small activity rheumatism and early stages of rheumatoid arthritis is shown.
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PMID:[Group-specific antigens of streptococci in the make-up of circulating immune complexes in rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis]. 247 88

The dynamics in schoolchildren's health status varies in time, as the incidence of some chronic diseases decreases and that of the others increases. As a result, the health status of schoolchildren has deteriorated due to a reduction in the number of healthy children and an increase in the number of chronic patients in the past 30 years. Nervous, immune (allergic), and blood diseases have become frequent. Chronic ENT diseases have been encountered more infrequently due to the noticeable reduction in the incidence rates of tonsillitis and otitis. The positive trend is that schoolchildren have no rheumatism, infective allergic myocarditis, chronic pneumonia and diffuse glomerulonephritis and that the prevalence of locomotor disorders, renal and metabolic (obesity) diseases is low. During school time, the health status of children slightly improves due to the lower incidence rates of chronic diseases and the higher proportion of healthy children, but it has remained still worse than it was 30 years ago. The formation of chronic diseases has been found to occur in health group II children, who have morphological and functional changes, in 50% of cases from the first to the sixth forms and in 20% of cases from the seventh to the tenth forms. The present-day children are characterized by a combination of abnormalities and functional disturbances. This all require active and timely prophylactic measures to block chronization at the premorbid stage. Lifestyle (to keep the hygienic school regime, to do exercises and to go in for sports), sociohygienic conditions and genetic factors have profound effects on the health status.
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PMID:[The health status dynamics of schoolchildren and the importance of biomedical factors in its development]. 768 98

At the Otorhinolaryngology Clinic in Novi Sad, 58 patients, from 2 to 53 years of age, with chronic palatine tonsillitis were bacteriologically examined. Staphylococcus aureus was isolated in most patients and was detected in 21 patients on the surface of the tonsil and in 25 patients at the place of a cut. Streptococcus pyogenes group A occurred only in 3 patients, group B in 1 patient which amounts to 5.17%, and 1.72%. The percentage of patients in whom rheumatism occurred was similar. The author points out the fact that there is a great disproportion between the number of patients who undergo surgery and number of complications at distant organs and appeals to reduction of indications for tonsillectomy to a reasonable level.
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PMID:[Bacterial study in patients with chronic disease of the palatine tonsils]. 865 63

The collection of moderate phages of S. pyogenes, group A, had been created earlier. As shown in this work, group A streptococcal cultures isolated from patients with rheumatism, glomerulonephritis and tonsillitis exhibited different sensitivity to the phages of this collection: the cultures were lyzed by phages of groups II and III in rheumatism, group III in tonsillitis and group I in glomerulonephritis. The study revealed that lysogeny was widely spread among S. pyogenes strains isolated from patients with different diseases under study. Most frequently occurred among cultures isolated from tonsillitis patients. In this disease only phage-resistant streptococcal cultures proved to be lysogenic. Lysogeny was found among both phage-sensitive and phage-resistant cultures in rheumatism and especially in glomerulonephritis.
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PMID:[The phage sensitivity and lysogeny of cultures of Streptococcus pyogenes group A isolated in different streptococcal infections]. 908 35

A total of 49 patients with rheumatism running a sluggish course, were examined, as were those with decompensated tonsillitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and 20 essentially healthy subjects. In inactive rheumatism an increase in the killer activity of lymphocytes and augmentation of amounts of Fc+lymphocytes were revealed, which values were significantly different from those in the other groups. The detected changes in the activity of lymphocytes may serve as differential-diagnostic criteria.
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PMID:[The role of the killer activity of the peripheral blood lymphocytes in the pathogenesis of rheumatism]. 922 Nov 41

(1) The prevalence of juvenile rheumatism is shown by the incidence of heart disease in 1.5 to 2 per cent. of urban elementary school children. The annual mortality from rheumatic heart disease is probably about 20,000 deaths a year.(2) The age-incidence is due to the three factors of tonsillitis, exposure, and the diminished resistance to infection of childhood. Where these three factors overlap we get the heavy incidence of the infection. The class-incidence shows a rheumatic stratum of society in the upper poorer classes. The disease is therefore not a "poverty disease" strictly so-called; some added factor is also at work.(3) Juvenile rheumatism is clearly an environmental disease, for if the children of the poor are transported from their homes to residential schools they remain free from rheumatic infection. What is the factor at work amongst the poor which produces the disease in their own homes? The evidence that cold damp houses have an important influence in producing juvenile rheumatism is considerable. Overcrowding seems to protect to some extent, owing to the prevention of cold. The environmental causes of the disease must centre largely round the production of tonsillar infection.(4) The organized effort needed to prevent and control juvenile rheumatism consists in increased attention to housing conditions; increased endeavour in early detection by the School Medical Service; increased supervision by hospitals and practitioners of their rheumatic patients; and increased accommodation for prolonged treatment of heart disease.
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PMID:Some Public Health Aspects of Juvenile Rheumatism. 1998 75