Scévole de Sainte-Marthe’s Elogia (1598–1630)

Sainte-Marthe’s influential eulogies of people who had distinguished themselves through learning devote considerable space to families that he can represent as combining two kinds of intrafamilial transmission: via literature and learning, and via royal offices. By making offices even more central to the transmission of literature and learning than had La Croix du Maine, Sainte-Marthe marginalizes literary and learned women still more. This chapter assesses (i) the extent to which families appear in the Elogia; (ii) exactly what this text describes as being transmitted within families; (iii) the extent to which such transmission is actual or potential, and the extent to which it is visible or hidden; (iv) what relation it has to birth; and (v) how robust or vulnerable it is.

The prevalence of different variants of Helicobacter pylori genotypes in families of patients with helicobacter-associated diseases

The article presents the results of the examination of relatives of the patients with chronic H. pylori-associated gastritis. The genes of H. pylori pathogenicity were investigated by PCR to determine possible intrafamilial transmission of the infection. We established that in families of the patients with chronic gastritis, H. pylori was found in more than 60 % of relatives. The most similar spectrum of the genes of H. pylori pathogenicity was found in the samples of spouses, as well as in the mothers and the children. The study of H. pylori genovariant helps establish the mechanisms and ways of transmission of the infection, identify people infected with the microorganism with the most pronounced pathogenic potential and requiring therapy.