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H Berthold

Publications and source records attributed to H Berthold.

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PubMed1985

Antibodies to adult T-cell leukemia virus (ATLV/HTLV-I) in AIDS patients and people at risk of AIDS in Germany.

A total of 2048 serum samples from Germany were examined for antibodies to adult T-cell leukemia virus (ATLV) structural polypeptides with an enzyme-linked immuno sorbent assay (ELISA) and confirmative immuno precipitation. The origin of the sera samples was: 850 samples taken for virological or protozoal diagnosis; 626 samples from male homosexuals, about 20% of whom had lymphadenopathy syndrome; 164 from hemophiliacs; 184 were from multiple transfused, mostly dialysis patients; 9 from intravenous drug abusers; 182 from suspected cases of acquired immuno deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and 33 from AIDS-patients. In none of these sera did we detect antibodies to ATLV, except in the serum of one patient who had been on hemodialysis for over 11 years. Obviously infection with ATLV or a serologically related agent is very rare in our country and an association with AIDS could not be observed.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1983

[Oxygen exchange processes between the dialyzing fluid and the blood during hemodialysis and resultant practical consequences].

The polarographic measuring technique was used to examine the processes of oxygen exchange between dialysing fluid and blood during haemodialysis in 21 patients of the chronic haemodialysis programme. During haemodialysis there is a tendency for the arterial oxygen partial pressure to fall; on the statistical average this is slight, in individual cases it is a marked tendency. With the apparatus KNA 302 (without degassing facilities) the blood is slightly oxygenated. This is less with the apparatus KN 401 (not very effective degassing facilities). With complete degassing of the dialysis solution a loss of oxygen through the membrane would be expected. This loss could be avoided by complete degassing of the dialysis solution and subsequent oxygenation. Various ways of realizing extrapulmonary oxygenation during haemodialysis in order to counteract the described tendency to hypoxaemia are pointed out. They should be particularly important when pulmonary means are exhausted (acute dialysis, shock lung).

Adult↗
PubMed1982

Clinical evaluation of the hepatitis safety of a beta-propiolactone/ultraviolet treated factor IX concentrate (PPSB).

The association of viral hepatitis, type B, with the use of prothrombin complex concentrates (PPSB) has been well documented. PPSB prepared from cold-sterilized plasma (beta-propiolactone treated and UV irradiated) has been shown not to induce hepatitis in chimpanzees. 500 U of cold-sterilized PPSB were infused into 5 healthy male volunteers. Previous to, and up to 6 months after, PPSB-application in addition to careful clinical investigations, the following hepatitis parameters were determined: SGOT, SGPT, y-GT, alkaline phosphatase, total serum bilirubin, HBsAg, HBcAb and HBsAb. On the basis of all of the above parameters there was no indication of induction of viral hepatitis following the application of PPSB prepared from beta-propiolactone/UV treated plasma.

Adult↗
PubMed1982

[Immunosuppressive therapy in patients with HBeAg-positive chronic active hepatitis B?].

The course of HBsAg-positive chronic active hepatitis was followed in 36 patients who were treated by immunosuppression and in 45 controls by means of serial determinations of HBeAg titers and by repeated biopsies of the liver. In the treated group remission occurred in 52% (HBeAg negative) resp. 48% (HBeAg positive); in the control group these percentages were almost identical, that is to say 61% resp. 41%. During therapy 5 out of 9 HBeAg positive patients and 7 out of 12 HBeAg negative patients developed cirrhosis of the liver as compared to 5 resp. 10, and 2 resp. 12 patients in the control group. Judging from these results it seems unlikely, that the course of HBsAg positive, chronic-active hepatitis in patients, whose serum shows a positive HBeAg titer by immunodiffusion, might be influenced in a positive way by immunosuppressive therapy.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

Effect of combined treatment of serum containing hepatitis B virus with beta-propiolactone and ultraviolet irradiation.

The effect of cold sterilization by beta-propiolactone (beta-PL) and ultraviolet (UV) irradiation of serum contaminated with infectious hepatitis B virus (HBV) was investigated in chimpanzee. Chimpanzees given 0.1 ml/kg of the undiluted HBV serum estimated to contain 10(7)-10(8) CID50/ml developed acute hepatitis B infection 4 weeks after inoculation. Chimpanzees injected with the same undiluted hepatitis serum treated with beta-PL/UV developed hepatitis B infection 14 weeks later. Based on the published linear relationship between log dose of HBV and incubation period in chimpanzees this indicates a 10(6)-fold reduction in infectivity titer. Animals inoculated with the serum diluted 1:1,000 showed manifest hepatitis B infection 11 weeks later. Animals inoculated with serum diluted 1:1,000 and then cold sterilized with beta-PL/UV showed no signs of hepatitis B infection. Sensitive proteins are not denatured by beta-PL/UV cold sterilization.

Animals↗
PubMed1979

A solid-phase radioimmunoassay for detection of IgM antibodies to hepatitis A virus.

The conditions for a sensitive and specific solid-phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) for the detection of IgM antibodies to hepatitis A virus (HAV) were optimized, and the RIA was used to assay sera from patients with hepatitis. IgM antibodies to HAV reached highest concentrations between one and three weeks after onset of icterus and were measurable in follow-up sera for at least 12 months after infection. To prove the specificity, the IgG antibodies were separated from patient sera by sucrose density-gradient centrifugation. The remaining IgM antibodies, after treatment with beta-mercaptoethanol, did not bind in the RIA, and, when the anti-IgM antibody bound to the solid phase was replaced with anti-IgG, a negative result was obtained with incubation of IgM antibody to HAV. Also, the presence of IgG was shown not to interfere with measurement of IgM antibody to HAV. Finally, as a further specificity control, 50 sera positive for rheumatoid factor or from patients infected with hepatitis B virus, cytomegalic inclusion disease, infectious mononucleosis, influenza A virus, rubella, or measles were tested, and all of these sera were negative for IgM antibody to HAV.

Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic↗