Intestinal Perfusion Studies in Tropical Sprue

Enterotoxigenic intestinal bacteria in tropical sprue.

The factors responsible for colonization of the small intestine by enterotoxigenic coliform bacteria in Puerto Ricans with tropical sprue are unknown, but epidemiological observations have suggested that they may be related to an increased dietary intake of long-chain unsaturated fatty acids, particularly linoleic acid, which is known to exert an inhibitory effect on the growth ofgrampositive o...

Tropical Sprue

Dysgammaglobulinaemia in tropical sprue.

Study of immunoglobulin levels in 16 Indian control subjects showed that, compared with a Danish control series, they had a significantly higher mean level of IgG, but not of IgA or IgM. By contrast, the IgG levels in eight patients with tropical sprue were decreased or low normal in six cases and raised in only one case. Two patients with tropical sprue had agamma-A-globulinaemia.Turnover stud...

of Tropical Diseases Tropical Sprue

One of the more mysterious and still rather poorly understood diseases seen in the tropical regions of the world is Tropical Sprue (TS). TS is a clinical syndrome with an unknown etiology typically characterized by an acquired chronic diarrheal illness, small bowel mucosal abnormalities and malabsorption resulting in nutritional deficiencies and weight loss [1]. These are vague symptoms which c...

Intrinsic factor in tropical sprue.

Criteria used to establish the diagnosis of tropical sprue were previously published.5 Twenty-one of the patients with sprue and four of the normal subjects were Puerto Rican. The patients with sprue ranged in age from 15 to 74 and the normal groups from 25 to 56. Treated patients were receiving folic acid orally, 5 mg. daily. Gastric juice was collected before and for 90 mm. after subcutaneous...