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“&Nbsp;The New Streptozyme Test For Streptococcal Antibodies. Studies In The Value Of This Multiple Antigen Test In Glomerulonephritis, Acute Pharyngitis, And Acute Rheumatic Fever”. Clinical Pediatrics, 14, Pp. 804-809.
תקציר THE DETERMINATION of antistrep- tolysin 0 (ASO) in patients’ sera is most commonly performed as an aid in the diag- nosis of streptococcal infection and their sequelae.’ However, because of the differences in immune responses to a variety of streptococcal exoproducts in rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis, it is advantageous to measure the level of more than one antis trep tococcal antibody, particularly in patients with low or borderline ASO levels. 2.3 The recently developed streptozyme test (A-STZ)l is a two-minute slide hemagglutina- tion procedure which quantitatively meas- ures multiple antibodies to streptococcal exracellular products. The reagents are sheep red blood cells sensitized simultaneously with streptolysin 0 (SLO), deoxyribonuclease B (DNase B), hyaluronidase (H), streptokinase (SK), and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide glycohydrolase (NADG). A good correlation betweenA-STZandASOinseraofrheumatic fever patients has been demonstrated. In a comparative study’ of the STZ test with titers obtained with three of the antibody tests, ASO, ADNase B, and AH, the useful- ness of the streptozyme test for laboratories which perform only the ASO test has been demonstrated. Similar conclusions were drawn in a comparative study in our laboratory. his report deals with three main topics: 1) the streptozyme studies done in our laboratories on four of human categories sera: control group, acute pyodermal ne- tients and acute rheumatic fever patients; 2) the reproducibility and specificity of the streptozyme test; and 3) the development of ASTZ in rabbits immunized with nonviable and viable streptococci.
Early Bronze Age remains from two very different sites are published here in detail. At Azor, south of Tel Aviv, two artificial burial caves containing the bones of some 200 individuals, 268 ceramic vessels, weapons, flint implements, and other artifacts of the late Proto-Urban period (EB II) were found. The placement of the burial gifts relative to the skeletal material in these caves is unique. The first season of excavations into the settlement layers at Tell Yarmuth, southwest of Beth Shemesh, uncovered two strata of EB III-IV, as well as remains from the Chalcolithic through Byzantine periods.
This study approaches the remains of Caesarea from a broad perspective by examining a number of historical and archaeological questions raised by both surface finds and excavated material. Pertinent literary sources and parallels from the Roman world at large shed light on the history and functions of the various structures at Caesarea. An extensive bibliography is included.
During the Hellenistic period, an inter-tribal group of Arabian-Aramean elements consolidated themselves under the name of Nabatu and made the transition from nomadic to sedentary life. The vigorous and independent culture that emerged reached its zenith in the 1st century BCE, and it is at this time that the Nabateans began to mint their own distinctive coins. Nabatean numismatic history, studied here in detail according to reigning monarchs, reflects the vicissitudes of the kingdom and its abrupt termination in 106 CE, when the Romans annexed the Nabatean kingdom to the empire as Provincia Arabia.
