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F Jensen

Publications and source records attributed to F Jensen.

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The management of septic arthritis in childhood.

A prospective study of one hundred children with septic arthritis showed that the knee and hip were the joints most affected and that Staphylococcus aureus and Haemophilus influenzae Type B were the commonest bacteria grown. Our treatment, consisting of early arthrotomy and intravenous methicillin and ampicillin, followed by six weeks of joint immobilization and oral administration of cloxacillin and ampicillin, effectively reversed the inflammatory process and compared very favourably with other methods of treatment. Significant residual joint abnormalities, present in 7% of the children, resulted from severe joint damage occurring before treatment. To achieve the best results, this regime must be instituted before permanent joint damage has occurred. This will only be achieved if an early clinical diagnosis of septic arthritis is made.

Age Factors↗

Complement-fixing antibody in human sera reactive with viral and soluble antigens of cytomegalovirus.

Antibody titers to cytomegalovirus were determined in 204 single-serum specimens and in 138 serum pairs, utilizing as antigen extracts of infected cells prepared by either freezing and thawing cells (FT antigen) or extracting them with a glycine buffer (GE antigen). With the serum pairs, 40% of the early sera and 44% of the late sera showed a fourfold or higher antibody titer with the GE antigen compared with those with the FT antigen, whereas 39% of the single sera had a fourfold or higher titer with the GE antigen. Sucrose density gradient centrifugation of the two antigen preparations indicated that the GE antigen contained two peaks of complement-fixing activity, one at a density of 1.18 to 1.22 g/cm3 and one at 1.06 to 1.10 g/cm3. The FT antigen had only one discernible peak of complement-fixing activity at 1.04 to 1.10 g/cm3. On electron microscopy, the more dense peak contained mainly nucleocapsids with some dense bodies and occasional enveloped virions, and the lighter peak was composed of amorphous material. Antibody titers obtained with the crude GE antigen and the more dense peak (designated viral antigen) were in agreement, whereas titers with the FT antigen agreed with those obtained with the lighter peak (soluble antigen). The antibody detected with both antigens was mainly immunoglobulin G.

Antibodies, Viral↗

Percutaneous antegrade pyelography in small infants and neonates.

Percutaneous antegrade pyelography is a safe and useful alternative to retrograde pyelography in the investigation of urinary-tract malformations in the neonate or very young infant. It is preferred to arteriography in the infant with a loin mass. Satisfactory delineation of hydronephrosis or cysts is simply and directly accomplished by this method, so that more complex and less definitive investigations can often be avoided. In addition, a variety of ureteric abnormalities may be displayed.

Aortography↗

Karyotypic, virologic, and immunologic analyses of two continuous lymphocyte lines established from New Zealand black mice: possible relationship of chromosomal mosaicism to autoimmunity.

Two continuous-suspension lymphocyte lines were isolated from the spleen and fibrosarcoma of a New Zealand Black female mouse. A C-type virus with a density of 1.16 g x cm(-3), 70S RNA, and RNA-directed DNA polymerase activity was isolated. The virus was infectious for NRK, NZB, (NZB x NZW)F(1), and (NZW x NZW)F(1) embryos, and for BALB/c 3T3 cells, but not for NIH Swiss cells. All cells from established lymphocyte cultures, as well as some embryo cells from New Zealand Black mice, showed karyotypic abnormalities. The possibility of chromosomal mosaicism is suggested.

Animals↗

Transformation of African green monkey kidney cells by irradiated adenovirus 7-simian virus 40 hybrid.

The ability of adenovirus 7-simian virus 40 (SV40) hybrid (strain LL "E-46") to replicate decreased exponentially as a function of the amount of gamma-irradiation; the ability to induce SV40 and adenovirus 7 T antigen decreased at a much slower rate. Nevertheless, the virus was still able to transform African green monkey kidney cells at a radiation dosage that had completely destroyed its replication ability. All transformed colonies were positive for SV40 T antigen but were negative for adenovirus 7 T antigen. The adenovirus 7-SV40 hybrid transformed cells were superinfectible with SV40 virus. Two of the three transformed cell populations apparently did not sensitize hamsters against the appearance SV40 primary tumors, thus suggesting a deficiency in the SV40 transplantation antigen.

Adenoviridae↗

Oncogenicity by DNA tumor viruses: enhancement after ultraviolet and cobalt-60 radiations.

Simian virus-40, polyoma, and LLE46 virus preparations were treated with ultraviolet or gamma radiations (cobalt-60) in a frozen state. Infectivity and induction of complement-fixing antigen and DNA synthesis declined as a logarithmic function of dose, the latter two properties being more resistant than infectivity to radiation by a factor of 2 to 5. Oncogenicity of all three viruses did not decrease with progressive amounts of both types of irradiation, but actually increased in absolute and relative terms (per infectious unit), even at the maximum dose of irradiation used (24,000 ergs per square millimeter per minute and 2.7 x 10(6) rads).

Adenoviridae↗