[Effects of health and medical undertreatment on the clinical status and social behavior of infants and small children in a Romanian orphanage]

Padiatr Padol. 1991;26(1):65-7.
[Article in German]

Abstract

The homage of 135 abandoned children in the city of Resita, south west Rumania, has been checked by a medical team from the University of Innsbruck for social, clinical and hyginical situation. The local government had applied for such an investigation. Most of the infections and other diseases are based on a dramatically bad hygienical situation. 52% of checked sera were HIV positiv by RIA and Western Blot, moreover 60% Hepatitis B antigen positiv. We assume a high rate of horizontal transmission of the HIV virus. One of the main clinical symptoms was maternal-deprivation syndrome, with an incidence of 80%. Consequences in personal policy of the homage as well as medical strategies have to follow.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Child Health Services / supply & distribution*
  • Child, Institutionalized / psychology
  • Child, Institutionalized / statistics & numerical data*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Communicable Disease Control / statistics & numerical data*
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • HIV Infections / epidemiology*
  • HIV Infections / psychology
  • HIV Infections / transmission
  • Hepatitis B / epidemiology*
  • Hepatitis B / psychology
  • Hepatitis B / transmission
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Infant
  • Maternal Deprivation
  • Medically Underserved Area*
  • Risk Factors
  • Romania / epidemiology
  • Social Behavior*