title: [Effects of health and medical undertreatment on the clinical status and social behavior of infants and small children in a Romanian orphanage].
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.
authors.affiliation: Universitäts-Kinderklinik, Innsbruck.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zaknun
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Oswald
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zaknun
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mayersbach
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sperl
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schmitzberger
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fuchs
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sailer
mesh_terms: D002662:Child Health Services / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D002674:Child, Institutionalized / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000635:transmission; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D012307:Risk Factors; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D012919:Social Behavior
vernacular_title: Auswirkungen von hygienischer und medizinischer Unterversorgung auf den klinischen Zustand und das soziale Verhalten bei Säuglingen und Kleinkindern in einem rumänischen Kinderheim.