Publications
| endemic infantile pneumocystis carinii infection: the shiraz study. | orphanage epidemics of interstitial plasma cell pneumonia (ipcp) occur among premature infants whose passive immunity due to maternally transferred antibodies has lost its effectiveness before the infants' humoral immune systems have reached sufficient maturity to respond effectively to pneumocystis carinii. ipcp occurs also among mature newborns receiving substandard care in understaffed and crowded orphanages. infantile diarrhea in these institutions leads to marasmus and deficient immune resp ... | 1976 | 1087958 |
| autopsy pathology and disease patterns in shiraz, iran, 1960-1974. | the impact of 4300 serial autopsies performed in shiraz, iran, on scientific and clinical medicine is discussed. these studies in geographic pathology led to the recognition of the importance in disease patterns of persistent, life-long changes in the human immune response brought about by serious perinatal infection and/or malnutrition. elucidation of the pathogenesis of primary upper small intestinal lymphoma serves as an example of the importance of the field of geographic pathology for the u ... | 1991 | 1649795 |