title: [Frequency of virus diseases in a regional hospital].
abstract: The district hospital Wertingen is nearly 100 km away from the Government-Investigation-Institute für Public Health, South-Bavaria, and there is no direct railway connection to Munich. This is a report how in spite of these insufficient traffic conditions in many cases the etiologic agent of virus diseases could be proved by isolation of virus or by showing specific IgM-antibodies or significant titer-rises in two blood-samples. For a successful investigation of the patient-material the knowledge of clinical symptoms and the anamnesis is most important. Furthermore is important the optimal time for collecting the material, which is for virus isolation always the earliest time after the onset of illness. For demonstration of titer-rises a second blood sample during the recovery has to be sent to the laboratory. During 1981 and 1982 in the district hospital Wertingen the diagnosis of 116 patients with virus diseases could be proved by demonstration of the etiologic agent.
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005860:Germany, West; D006767:Hospitals, District; D006801:Humans; D012698:Serologic Tests; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*
vernacular_title: Häufigkeit von Viruserkrankungen in einem Landkrankenhaus.