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Virobis (N1 N1 Anhydrobis (Beta - Hydroxyethyl) Biguanide Hydrochloride) in Chicken-Pox*
Abstract
Chicken-pox (varicella) carries no conferred neonatal immunity, nor is it preventable by the injection of exposed and suscepticle subjects with gamma-globulin. Once established in an institution it is extremely difficult to eradicate, particularly as new cases are always being introduced by admission from a community in which epidemics are frequent. For some 3 years this exanthem has been endemic in a Cape Town convalescent home for Coloured infants and children, who are malnourished and who have suffered infections, especially pneumonia and gastro-enteritis. The purpose of the Home is to provide an adequate diet in the recovery phase and to ensure final discharge to their homes of children in a satisfactory nutritional state. Though the purpose is to provide adequate nutrition it is often necessary to treat minor illnesses, but in view of the poor resistance of these malnourished children, chickenpox has often been of a severe nature and necessitated transfer to an infectious disease hospital.