Disclosed herein is the treatment of patients suffering from AIDS-type disease with a colony stimulating factor alone or together with erythropoietin, and/or an anti-viral agent and/or IL-2.

An apparatus for detecting ophthalmic diseases such as an inflammation in a patient's eye which includes means for focussing a laser beam at a selected spot in the eye. The light scattered from the eye is photoelectrically detected and converted into an electrical signal which is subsequently used to determine the protein concentration essential to ophthalmic disease detection in the patient's eye. The laser beam is so deflected that it scans an area in the patient's eye except for a plane which...

A test to diagnose the presence of Johne's disease is disclosed. In one aspect it involves using a DNA segment that will hybridize to M. paratuberculosis but not to other bacteria typically found in bovine feces. Another aspect of the invention is providing a process for breaking the cell wall of mycobacteria using dense beads in the presence of phenol.

A method of performing an assay to determine whether a patient has been exposed to or infected by Borrelia burgdorferi is disclosed which comprises collecting serum from the patient; preparing a sample mixture comprising a portion of the patient's serum and an inoculum of viable Borrelia burgdorferi organisms; incubating the sample mixture; determining the number of viable organisms remaining in the sample mixture after incubation; and comparing the number with the quantity of viable organisms r...

Disclosed herein is a treatment for Kawasaki disease, which comprises administering a xanthine derivative represented by the general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein at least one of R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 means a group expressed by CH.sub.3 CO(CH.sub.2).sub.n --, in which n stands for a number of 1-5, and the remaining groups denote individually an alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms. The treatment can prevent the development of coronary lesions, which is the greatest problem of Kawasaki dise...

A preparation is useful for treating renal disease, such as nephritis and especially nephrosis (nephrotic syndrome), which comprises an effective amount of N-acetylneuraminic acid shown by the formula ##STR1## wherein, when n is 1, Z represents hydrogens, lithium, potassium, sodium, ammonium or organic ammonium, and when n is 2, Z represents calcium, barium or magnesium, and a pharmacologically acceptable carrier.

An ocular disease detection device is constructed having a defocusing mechanism that causes eyes of a subject to be defocused. This is primarily accomplished by providing a beamsplitter at a first focal distance from the eyes and projecting an image at a second focal distance to the beamsplitter and then to the eyes. This presents an image having two focal lengths therein to the subject, which defocuses the eyes. A beam generator and camera are mounted so that their respective axes are closely p...

A method of and system for the treatment of periodontal diseases is disclosed wherein a patient, using a delivery device, applies a medicament directly to the infected site. The delivery device may comprise a piece of tufted dental floss, an interdental brush, a syringe, or a night time application tray for forcibly applying medicament to the infected site. The delivery device carries a supply of an antimicrobial or antibiotic medicament, preferably a tetracycline, dichloride or hydrogen peroxid...

Peptide medicaments, and antibody thereto, useful for treating or preventing diseases, particularly diseases involving an inflammatory response by a host organism against infection, that are preferably derived from the .beta. subunit, CD18, of the leukocyte integrins, and that have the property of either interfering with, or preventing undesirable leukocyte adhesion to biological materials, particular to endothelial cells, or that interfere with, or prevent the chemotaxis of leukocytes through t...

A novel method for treating Dutch elm disease by use of a certain type of P. syringae. This method includes the step of applying this microorganism to an elm tree early in the growing season. Also disclosed is a process for isolating an antimycotic substance formed by an exemplary strain of this type of microorganism, and a process for isolating a high molecular weight antibiotic also formed by this exemplary strain. In addition, the high molecular weight antibiotic is disclosed, as well as meth...