Post-exposure prophylaxis after accidental prion inoculation
Post-exposure prophylaxis after accidental prion inoculation
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意外接种朊病毒后的暴露后预防
DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(05)78591-3
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发表时间:
1998
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S. Dealler
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S. Dealler
Sir—Adriano Aguzzi and John Collinge’s report (Nov 22, p 1519) 1 shows how prevention of infection is difficult, and hence it may be impossible to convince the patient at risk of the advantages of these methods. We must not forget the work carried out with scrapie in mice and hamsters showing that specific polysulphonated polyglycosides were able to decrease the apparent size of the inoculum given, 2 and sometimes to prevent infection taking place. As a result, single doses of dextran sulphate (molecular weight 500 kD, 400 mg/kg intramuscularly, toxicity unknown) or oral doses of pentosan polysulphate (Norton Healthcare Ltd, Harlow, UK) as 400 mg thrice daily for 3 months (the human life expectancy equivalent of 72 h in the mouse) after transmissible spongiform encephalopathy inoculation should be considered in man. 3 About 3% of pentosan is absorbed from the gut, it is partly desulphated by liver and splenic enzymes, and then excreted largely in the urine over 24 h. Pentosan has 8% of the activity of