PREDICTING OF RISKS OF GROUNDWATER AND SURFACE WATER POLLUTION WITH DIFFERENT CLASSES OF HERBICIDES IN SOIL IN EASTERN EUROPE CLIMATE CONDITIONS.

Application of pesticides in modern agriculture is a powerful permanent risk factor for public health and the natural environment. The aim of the study was a comparative hygienic assessment of the danger of contamination of ground and surface water sources with most widely used herbicides of different chemical classes (sulfonylureas, imidazolinones, pirimidinilkarboksilovye compounds semicarbazones). Field hygienic experiments for studying of the residues dynamics of studied herbicides concentration in agrocenosis objects were made by us in different types of soils: chernozem, sod-podzolic, podzolized forest. Then the half-life periods (DT50) of the substances in the soil were calculated. It was found that according to GUS index there is a high probability of leaching into groundwater of sulfonylureas and imidazolinones; according to LEACH index all investigated substances have a high risk of run-off into groundwater and surface water.

[PREDICTING OF RISK OF SOIL CONTAMINATION BY DIFFERENT CLASSES OF FUNGICIDES IN SOIL AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONS OF UKRAINE].

Application of pesticides in modern agriculture is a powerful permanent risk factor for public health and the natural environment. The aim of the study was a comparative hygienic assessment of soil pollution hazards by the most widely used herbicides of different chemical classes (sulfonylureas, imidazolinones, pyrimidinyl (thio) benzoates, semicarbazones). Hygienic field experiment for studying of the dynamics of residual amounts of the test substances in the soil under different climatic zones of Ukraine was conducted. Half life periods (DT50) or herbicides in soil were calculated using the method of mathematical modeling. Ecotoxicological risk of herbicides on ecosystems and ecological communities was determined. It was established that bispyribac-sodium (pyrimidinyl (thio) benzoates) and imidazolinones are persist the longest time in soil and most rapidly degradable is diflufenzopyr (semicarbazone); ecotoxicological risk of the studied herbicides for terrestrial biocenoses of Ukraine by 4-6 orders of magnitude lower than dihlordifeniltrihlormetilmetan (DDT).

[PROCUREMENT OF SANITARY AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL WELFARE IN THE REGION OF-CITY-RESORT SOCHI FOR DANGEROUS AND NATURAL-FOCI INFECTIOUS DIS- EASES IN 2015].

AIM: Analysis ofresults of epidemiologic monitoring especially dangerous, natural-foci and other infectious diseases, asill as epizootologic activity of natural foci of infection on,the terri- tory, of city-resort Sochi. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Laboratory studies of 820. samples by PCR; im- mune- and bacteriologic methods were carried out, among those 344 - clinical material, 12 - water from open bodies and 321 - field material. Molecular-genetic identification of-143 strains of Vibrio-cholerae, isolated from open water bodies of city-resort Sochi, was-carried out,. RESULTS: Circulation of causative agents of Q fever, tularemia and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome of Dobrava-Adler genotypes was established, -as well as rickettsia of tick spotted fever group Predomination of rotaviruses (70.9%) was detected during study of samples of clinical material in etiologic structure of sporadically emerging acute intestine infections. Relatively high temperature values of river water during summer months (from 18, to 30 C), exit of sulfide mineral waters into the riverbed, that create-alkaline medium, seasonal reduction of river debit and speed of water current facilitated sustenance of contamination of water of Agura river by V.cholerae. CONCLUSION: Activity of natural foci of the infectious disease and contamination of Agura iver by V.cholerae Ο1, (atoxigenic) gives evidence on the necessity of constant control of epidemiologic situation by dangerous and natural-foci infectious diseases on the territory of city-resort Sochi, as well as study regional features, of their causative agents, including using genetic methods.

PREDICTION OF PESTICIDE RISKS TO HUMAN HEALTH BY DRINKING WATER EXTRACTED FROM UNDERGROUND SOURCES.

The aim of our work was to develop the method of prediction of the risk of contamination of groundwater with different classes' fungicides in soil and climatic conditions of Ukraine and other European countries, as well as hygienic assessment of their impact on public health. The calculation and comparative evaluation of various indices of pesticides migration into groundwater were conducted. It was established that the most optimal and complete is an LEACN index according to which in soil and climatic conditions of Ukraine the risk of contamination of ground and surface water by all studied fungicides is low, except penconazole and tebuconazole for which there is medium contamination risk. We have developed a method of integrated assessment of the potential hazard of pesticide exposure on the human organism when it enters ground and surface waters, which are intensive used for drinking water supplying. Integral index of this method - IGCHI - is obtained by adding of scores assigned to main indicators characterizing the danger to humans in pesticides gets into the water: index of leaching (LEACН), half life period in water (DT50) and the allowable daily intake (ADI). According developed method all studied fungicides are low hazard for human, except benalaxy-M and tebuconazole which are hazard and highly hazard, respectively. It was established that, benalaxy-M is hazard when it leached into groundwater and surface water, tebuconazole is highly hazard, which is primarily due to their high stability in water (in both cases) and significant potential for leaching (in the latter case).

Prediction of soil and ground water contamination with fungicides of different classes according to soil and climate conditions in Ukrain and other European countries.

It was established that most of tested pesticides are moderately and low persistent in soil and climatic conditions of Ukraine, but more stable in Western and Northern Europe countries due to peculiarities of their climate type and soil characteristics. In addition, it was determined that all studied fungicides pertain to non- and low mobile compound (except moderately mobile pyrimethanil). Recommendations on application of studied fungicides in soil and climatic conditions of Ukraine and other European countries were given.

[Analysis of foreign experience of maintenance of biological safety of the Olympic Games].

The analysis of the international experience in providing measures of health and disease safety at the Olympic Games was done. The stages of the formation of bio-security system at public events were considered, including measures to prevent infection outbreaks, the use of computer and information technologies.

[Improvement of laboratory diagnostics of cholera due to genetically altered (hybrid) variants of cholera Vibrio biovar El Tor].

AIM: Improvement of laboratory diagnostics of cholera taking into the account appearance of hybrid variants of cholera vibrio El Tor biovar in the 1990s. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Phenotypic and molecular-genetic properties of typical toxigenic (151 strains) and hybrid (102 strains) variants of El Tor biovar cholera vibrios, isolated in the Caucuses in 1970-1990 and 1993-1998, respectively, were studied. Toxigenicity gene DNA fragments, inherent to El Tor biovars or classic, were detected by using a reagent kit "Genes of Vibrio cholerae variant ctxB-rstR-rstC, REF" developed by us. RESULTS: Reagent kit "Genes of V. cholerae variant ctxB-rstR-rstC, REF" is proposed to be used for laboratory diagnostics of cholera during study of material from humans or environmental objects and for identification of V. cholerae 01 on genome level in PCR-analysis as a necessary addition to the classic scheme of bacteriological analysis. CONCLUSION: Laboratory diagnostics of cholera due to genetically altered (hybrid) variants of cholera vibrio El Tor biovar is based on a complex study of material from humans and environmental objects by routine bacteriologic and PCR-analysis methods with the aim of detection of gene DNA fragments in the studied material, that determine biovar (classic or El Tor), identification of V. cholerae O1 strains with differentiation of El Tor vibrios into typical and altered, as well as determination of enterotoxin, produced by the specific cholera vibrio strain (by the presence ctxB(El) or ctxB(Cl) gene DNA fragment, coding biosynthesis of CT-2 or CT-1, respectively).

[Auditory evoked potentials under attentional lapses].

In order to study spontaneous attentional lapses the experimental task was used that created a moderately high attentional load and involved response choice based on stimulus feature conjunction. The participant's average correct response rate was 85.1%; they made errors in 9.6% trials and response omissions in 5.4% trials. Peak N1 of the evoked potential was consistent across all behavioral outcomes, while peak P2 amplitude was significantly greater before errors and response omissions compared to correct responses. The analysis of polygraphic indexes (ECG, EMG, SGR) did not reveal any arousal level reduction before attentional lapses. The proposed interpretation of the results obtained is based on the assumption that attentional lapses are mediated by the suppression of external stimuli information processing caused by the state of mind-wandering.

[Vestibular paroxismia].

The objective of the present publication was to demonstrate a clinical case of peripheral vestibular paroxismia verified in a woman with the help of the MRI technique. Vestibular paroxismia is a relatively rare disease manifested in such characteristic signs and symptoms as sudden and short-lived episodes of dizziness, unstable gait, and the concomitant vegetative disorders accompanied as a rule by tympanophonia, impairment of hearing, and falls. In typical cases, the duration of such episodes varies from several minutes to a few days. A case of vestibular paroxismia associated with the lesion in the peripheral section of the vestibular system is described; it was caused by compression of the nerve by a blood vessel as shown by means of magnetic resonance imaging of cranial nerves.

[Particularities of blood lymphocyte response to irradiation in vitro in breast cancer patients].

DNA breaks and their repair efficiency were analyzed in irradiated in vitro lymphocytes (at doses 1 Gy, gamma-radiation of 60Co, dose rate 1 Gy/min) isolated from peripheral blood of 41 untreated patients with breast cancer and 25 healthy donors using the DNA comet assay under non-denaturing conditions (mainly double-strand DNA breaks (DSB), as well as apoptotic cell death using the DNA halo assay. To estimate the expression of bystander effect, the cells were incubated in a culture medium obtained from lymphocytes irradiated in vitro at doses 1 Gy. The average DSB level in blood lymphocytes of breast cancer patients was shown to be significantly higher (p < 0.05) compared with that in control donors. In general, the following effects were observed in irradiated in vitro lymphocytes of cancer patients: (1) increased sensitivity to y-radiation-induced DNA DSBs compared with lymphocytes from healthy donors, (2) reduced repair efficiency of these damages. Incubation of irradiated blood lymphocytes in a medium from irradiated cells led to an increased relative number of DNA DSBs and an elevated fraction of cells dying through apoptotic pathway both in blood lymphocytes from cancer patients and control donors. However, these non-targeted effects were more expressed for the blood lymphocytes of breast cancer patients.

[Antibacterial susceptibility/resistance of Vibrio cholerae eltor clinical strains isolated in the Caucasus during the seventh cholera pandemic].

The data on antibacterial susceptibility and resistance of Vibrio cholerae eltor phenotypes with different sets of the susceptibility or resistance markers conditioning the outbreaks and sporadic cases of cholera in the Caucasus within 1970-1998 are presented. An increase of the number of the Vibrio cholerae phenotypes resistant to tetracycline and chloramphenicol usually used in the treatment of cholera was recorded in 1990-1994 vs. 1970-1989. The El Tor cholera vibrios stored on synthetic media lost some of their resistance markers, therefore the retrospective investigation of the antibioticograms was only of approximate prognostic value in the choice of the drugs for the etiotropic treatment of cholera in view of possible outbreak of the disease.

Interplay of inequivalent atomic positions in resonant x-ray diffraction of Fe(3)BO(6).

'Forbidden' Bragg reflections of iron orthoborate Fe(3)BO(6) were studied theoretically and experimentally in the vicinity of the iron K edge. Their energy spectra are explained as resulting from the interference of x-rays scattered from two inequivalent crystallographic sites occupied by iron ions. This particular structure property gives rise to complex azimuthal dependences of the reflection intensities in the pre-edge region as they result from the interplay of site specific dipole-quadrupole and quadrupole-quadrupole resonant scattering. Also evidenced is an anisotropic character of the absorption spectrum. Self-absorption correction to the diffraction data, as well as possible contributions of thermal vibrations and magnetic order, are discussed. Particular care is given to extracting clean spectra from the data, and it is demonstrated that excellent results can be obtained even from measurements that appear corrupted by several effects such as poor crystal quality and multiple scattering.

[Organizational provision for the sanitary and epidemiological safety of the population in the regions of the Stavropol Territory affected by the flood]. / Organizatsionnoe obespechenie sanitarno-épidemiologicheskogo blagopoluchiia naseleniia v raionakh Stavrpol'skogo Kraia, postradavshikh ot navodneniia.

Materials on the organizational provision and financing of measures taken with a view to ensure the sanitary and epidemiological safety in the Stavropol Territory in connection with the high flood of 2002 are presented. Due to the joint efforts of sanitary, antiepidemic and medico-prophylactic services of the Territory, administrative organs and institutions, as well as other relevant departments, not only high quality restoration works were carried out and completed in a short time, medical assistance was given to the victims and the appearance of mass infectious diseases prevented, but also the growth social tensions in the affected areas was averted.

[Situation of brucellosis in the regions of Stavropol Territory affected by the flood of 2002]. / Obstanovka po brutsellezu v raionakh Stavropol'skogo Kraia, postradavshikh ot navodeniia v 2002 g..

The emergency situation caused by inundations and high floods on the rivers in the affected regions exerts no direct influence on brucellosis morbidity among humans. Still the urgent evacuation of agricultural animals in connection with the natural calamity, their displacement and regrouping give grounds to prognosticate the deterioration of the epizootic situation in this infection in a number of regions of the territory where no sufficient veterinary surveillance has been ensured.

[Central nervous system damage in inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathies]. / Porazhenie tsentral'noi nervnoi sistemy pri vospalitel'nykh demieliniziruiushchikh polinevropatiiakh.

The results of subclinical brain damage study of 20 patients with inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, aged 46.5 +/- 3.7 years, are presented. Eleven patients were diagnosed to have Guillain--Barre syndrome and 9--chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. No clinical systems for central nervous system damage were found. Magnetic resonance tomography defected demyelination foci in periventricular and sub-cortical brain regions in 35% of the patients and diffuse atrophic process--in 55%. Registration of brainstem acoustic-evoked potentials showed bilateral latency increase and a change of a signal shape in 60% of the patients. Possible mechanisms of combined damage of central and peripheral nervous system in this pathology are discussed.

[Epizootic significance of white-toothed shrews in the natural focus of steppe type tularemia in the Stavropol' region]. / Epizooticheskoe znachenie zemleroek belozubok v prirodnom ochage tuliaremii stepnogo tipa v Stavropol'skom krae.

The observations indicate that anthropogenic activities cause structural changes with time among tularemia pathogen carriers in the microfocus. The epizootic and epidemic values of animal species, such as dwarf hamsters and house mice, decrease while those of insect-eating animals, namely white-toothed shrews that refer to Group II increase, in terms of tularemia infection susceptibility. In white-toothed shrews, tularemia infection rates are 4-6-times greater than those in other small mammals that refer to Group I.

[Effect of prolonged gamma-irradiation on the functional state of heart and its adrenergic regulation at hypothyroidism]. / Osobennosti vliiania prolongirovannogo vozdeistviia gamma-izlucheniia na funktsional'noe sostoianie serdtsa i ego adrenergicheskuiu reguliatsiiu pri gipotireoze.

The study of heart isolated by Langendorf's method has shown that the prolongated gamma-irradiation of euthyroid rats in 1.0 Gy dose (2.8 x 10(-7) Gy/sec) causes the decrease in contraction ability, myocardium relaxation and functional response of heart to the stimulation of beta-adrenergic receptors, and the increase in myocardium reaction to the stimulation of alpha-adrenergic receptors. The irradiation of hypothyroid animals leads to more significant and long changes in contraction function of heart and its adrenergic regulation.