Showing papers by "Yehuda L. Danon published in 1996"

Immune deficiency in glycogen storage disease type 1B.

Abstract: Patients with glycogen storage disease type 1B present the clinical features of glycogen storage disease type 1A. In addition, they are susceptible to recurrent bacterial infection and have recurrent oral ulcers and occasionally Crohn's-like disease. There features are due to immune dysfunction caused by a combination of neutropenia and impaired phagocytic functions.

Measles immunity and response to revaccination of a young adult population in Israel.

Abstract: In order to evaluate the true immune status and the effect of revaccination on a young adult population, we collected serum samples from 289 military recruits who were vaccinated during an outbreak in 1991. Most vaccinees, age 18-25 years, had apparently been immunized once before as infants. Sera collected just prior to the vaccination and 14 and 28 days afterwards were tested for measles antibodies by hemagglutination inhibition (HI) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-lgM. Before vaccination, 46 (15.9%) of the subjects had no HI antibodies, (<1 :4) and 48 (16.6%) had borderline (1 :4) HI titer. Following vaccination, only ten (3.5%) remained negative and 19 (6.6%) had borderline titer. The increase in HI antibody titer was inversely proportional to the prevaccination titer, and 159 subjects (55.0%) showed no increase at all. The geometric mean titer (GMT) rose from 9.14 to 21.47. Among the prevaccination-negative subjects (HI <1 :4) 28 (60.9%) reached a postvaccination titer of ≥1 : 8, and eight (17.4%) reached a titer of 1 :4. Twelve (26.1%) of the negative subjects seroconverted and developed IgM, 16 (35%) seroconverted without IgM, and 18 (39%) remained negative and did not develop IgM. A group of eight vaccinees with prevaccination titer of ≥1 :4 developed IgM. Some were probably infected by the circulating wild-type virus prior to the vaccination. Thus, a total number of 20 of the 289 subjects studied (6.9%) had true negative preimmune status as judged by the IgM test. However, the vaccination campaign prevented further measles cases, apparently by increasing the population's immunity, particularly in individuals with very low titers or without measles antibodies.

Myopia in neurofibromatosis type 1.

Abstract: We studied the prevalence of myopia in 17-year-old Israeli military recruits with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Twenty-four percent of the youngsters with neurofibromatosis had myopia, compared to 19% of the controls; this difference was statistically significant (P < 0.03). The recruits with NF1 had a slightly lower IQ, fewer years of education, and lower height and weight than the controls. Thus, these factors, which have been reported to be associated with myopia, did not significantly influence the high prevalence of myopia in the neurofibromatosis subjects. A high prevalence of myopia seems to be an additional feature of NF1.