In this work, the AA. have related the principal suture of the skull and the face, analysing the embryonal, functional and anatomic aspects, with particular reference to the times of end of growth ...and ossification. Furthermore, the AA. had explained the orthopedic appliances which influence, with their action, the activity of specific suture, emphasizing the growth period in which they are more efficient in the correction of the various dentofacial disharmonies.
The authors report the preliminary data of a study which aims to identify the variables (socio-demographic, clinical and nosographic) which may be used to predict the evolution of psychiatric ...disorders. A retrospective follow-back study was carried out using the medical records and any other documentation available from medical and psychological centers in order to identify the evolutionary stages of disease and possible pre-disease antecedents. The sample group examined was selected from users attending the Diagnosis and Treatment Psychiatric Unit at Pavia Hospital who were found to have undergone infantile neuropsychiatric outpatient or hospital treatment during childhood. The preliminary phase of the study reports the results of the first 42 cases. The predictive value of the diagnosis made during childhood emerges from an analysis of the results and consequently emphasises the need to orient Infantile Neuropsychiatric structure not only towards diagnosis and care but also, towards a more strictly therapeutic action.
Thirty-six specimens of feces were taken from as many chicken farms, from which 118 different strains of Enterobacteriaceae were isolated. The resistances of the single isolated bacteria were ...studied, performing plate sensitivity tests by the Kirby-Bauer method. The capacity of the bacteria under examination to transfer their antibiotic resistances in vitro to a sensitive E. coli strain (E. coli K 12 E 711 F--) was observed. A very high percentage of strains has shown resistance to one or more antibiotics (91%). However a much lesser number of strains were capable of transferring their antibiotic resistances (12.9%). It is suggestive, then, that the animals under examination do not represent an important source of antibiotic resistance diffusion to man.
