[The reflexotherapy at the hospital stage of the functional disorders following the surgical shutoff of the ovaries]. / Refleksoterapiia funktsional'nykh rasstroistv posle operatiovnogo vykliucheniia iaichnikov na gospital'nom étape.

Basing on the parameters of psychoemotional status and vegetovascular reactions in 104 patients of a reproductive age after surgical castration, the authors assess the results of combined therapy, including reflex therapy. The postoperative treatment resulted in improvement of psychoemotional status and normalization of the vegetovascular reactions that may be regarded as early manifestations of the post-castration syndrome.

[Corrective effect of reflexotherapy on the hypophyseal-ovarian and sympathetic-adrenal systems after ovariectomy]. / Korrigiruiushchee vozdeistvie refleksoterapii na gipofizarno- iaichnikovuiu i simpatiko-adrenalovuiu sistemy posle khirurgi- cheskogo vykliucheniia iaichnikov.

The time course of LH, FSH, prolactin, estradiol, hydrocortisone, insulin and catecholamine levels in the blood was followed up in 62 patients of a reproductive age after surgical switch-off of the ovaries. Reflex therapy (electroacupuncture, acupuncture, other types of reflex therapy) included in the complex of postoperative treatment was conductive to the maintenance of a favorable level of hormones contributing to compensatory defense reactions to surgical stress and total ovariectomy.

[Agricultural animals as a source of yersiniosis]. / Sel'skokhoziaistvennye zhivotnye kak istochnik iersinioza.

The role of agricultural animals as the sources of infection was studied. 8 Yersinia strains were isolated from 83 samples taken from cattle. Yersinia were isolated from feces, udder washings and milk. In the examination of 63 samples obtained from sheep the infective agent was isolated from feces in 6 cases. 6 Yersinia strains were isolated from 92 fecal samples taken from pigs. Y. enterocolitica were isolated from sick animals. The isolated strains were classified with serovars 03, 058, 08 and 09. In the foci of animal infection thus revealed antibodies to various Yersinia strains were detected in the blood sera of the animal-tending personnel, which indicates the professional character of the spread of this infection among humans. The infection is probably transferred by the contact and alimentary routes.

[Possibility of the serological differential diagnosis of human brucellosis and yersiniasis]. / O vozmozhnosti serologicheskoi differentsial'noi diagnostiki brutselleza i iersinioza u liudei.

The results of the examination of patients with brucellosis and yersiniosis (serotype 0-9) are presented. The possibility of making, in principle, the differential serological diagnosis of brucellosis and yersiniosis in the agglutination test with the use of Yersinia OH-antigen has been established.

[Serological types of Yersinia enterocolitica isolated from humans and from environment]. / Serologicheskii peizazh Yersinia enterocolitica, vydeliaemykh ot liudei i iz okurzhaiushchei sredy.

A total of 1061 Y. enterocolitica strains isolated from patients with different clinical manifestations of yersiniosis (acute intestinal disease, hepatitis, generalized infection, meningitis, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic intestinal disease), from foodstuffs, from animals and from open water reservoirs have been studied. This study has revealed that the strains of serovars 09 and 03 are mainly isolated from humans (66% and 30.5% of cases, respectively). The strains of serovar 05B occur in 3%, and serovar 08 in 0.5% of cases. The clinical manifestations of infection have not been found to depend on the serovar of the strain causing this infection. All Yersinia serovars produced infections in children and adults with equal frequency. Y. enterocolitica strains belonging mainly to serovars 09, 03 and, less commonly, 05B and 08 circulate in different areas of our country. The same serovars of Yersinia have been isolated from foodstuffs (milk, meat, vegetables) and washings obtained from various objects of the environment, which indicates their role as the factors of infection transfer.

[Spread of Yersinia among patients with acute intestinal infections]. / Rasprostranenie iersinii sredi bol'nykh ostrymi kishechnymi infektsiiami.

During 1979 a large-scale study of fecal samples obtained from patients with acute intestinal infections was carried out with the aim of establishing the presence of Yersinia. As a result, 9 Y. enterocolitica strains and 7 Y. pseudotuberculosis strains were isolated. Y. enterocolitica were classified with serovars O8, O3, and O5B and with biovars 2, 3, and 4; Y. pseudotuberculosis were classified with serovars 1 and 3. The isolation of Yersinia facilitated the identification of the etiological structure of acute intestinal infections.

[Biological properties of strain of Yersinia enterocolitica isolated from humans]. / Biologicheskie svoistva vydelennykh ot liudei shtammov Yersinia enterocolitica.

A total of 1300 patients were examined; this number included patients suffering from food poisoning and with suspected dysentery hsopitalized at the isolation hospital; patients with diarrheal diseases under observation of the intestinal unit of the sanitary-epidemiological station, and patients with acute or exacerbation of chronic affection of the bile tracts. A total of 28 Yersinia enterocolitical strains were isolated from these patients, this constituting 2.1% of the total number os examinations. The strains isolated were typical by ciological properties and were referred to the 3rd and 9th serological and the 3rd and 4th biochemical types.