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U Runne

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PubMed1975

Tumor- and drug-induced cutaneous neuro-phospholipidosis.

Drugs and metastatic malignant tumors induce severe alterations in cutaneous axons. The most prominent ultrastructural feature of axonal dystrophy of this type was the presence of multiple lamellated osmiophilic bodies (LOB), similar to those occurring in hereditary disorders with increase of brain gangliosides and lipid storage. Chloroquine, ergotamine, ethaverine and chronic abuse of non-narcotic analgesic drugs seem to be responsible for the drug-induced cutaneous neuro-phospholipidosis, whereas the same condition was found in two patients with metastatic bronchogenic carcinoma and malignant melanoma.

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PubMed1975

[Virus propagation, virus replication and virus elimination in the human skin in zoster].

The purpose of this study was to investigate the spreading, the replication and the elimination of Varicella-Zoster-Virus (ZV) in human skin. Typical skin lesions of thoracic zoster in different stages of development and of exanthematic vesicles in ophthalmic zoster were examined under the electron microscope. We found that ZV may be detected in fully developed vesicular skin lesions only, whereas in immature lesions and in the surrounding non involved skin axonal alterations may be seen, with no ZV present. The replication of the virus in the skin takes place almost exclusively in the malpighian keratinocytes of the involved epidermis. Blister formation in zoster is basically a result of the acantholysis of the infected epidermal cells. Mature ZV are then extruded into the intercellar space and become phagocytised by mononuclear cells which infiltrate the epidermis and eliminate the virus in large phagolysosomes. Only few virions were found in the dermis extracellularly or in dermal macrophages. In some of these cells stages of ZV-replication were also seen. Other cell types (i.e. Langerhans cells) were rarely infected. The application of the periodic acid-silver methenamine technique (PASM) in zoster revealed that a glycoprotein-rich coat surrounds each mature virion, obviously originating from the plasma membrane of the infected keratinocytes. This coat may be reason for the ability of the ZV to adhere on the cell surface and to infect the cell.

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Ixodes ricinus spirochete and European erythema chronicum migrans disease.

From three endemic locations of erythema chronicum migrans disease in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, we recovered 19 isolates of a spirochete from Ixodes ricinus ticks. The infection rate in adult ticks was 16 percent. The isolated spirochete is immunologically related to the Ixodes dammini spirochete, Borrelia duttoni, and Treponema pallidum. Using indirect immunofluorescence, the sera of 90 patients with erythema chronicum migrans disease showed antibody titers against the isolated spirochete, which correlated with the clinical course. Similarly, antibodies were demonstrated in the sera of 21 patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans. These results suggest an etiologic role for the Ixodes ricinus spriochete in European erythema chronicum migrans disease.

Antibodies, Bacterial↗