[A clinico-laboratory assessment of the efficacy of an Augmentin suspension in treating children with suppurative-inflammatory diseases caused by opportunistic bacteria]. / Kliniko-laboratornaia otsenka éffektivnosti Augmentin-suspenzii pri lechenii detei s gnoino-vospalitel'nymi zabolevaniiami, vyzvannymi uslovno-patogennymi bakteriiami.

Augmentin suspension (amoxycillin+clavulanic acid) was estimated in clinico-laboratory studies with respect to children suffering from pyoinflammatory diseases of various localization and its high efficacy was shown. Good and satisfactory results were recorded in 96.3 per cent of the cases in the treatment (monotherapy) and afterwards in the patients, adverse reactions such as nausea and vomiting being recorded only in 1 patient. The therapy with augmentin led to normalization of the microflora of the upper respiratory tract mucosa and a 1.5-fold increase in the neutrophil engulfment index.

[Therapeutic form of doxycycline hydrochloride for intravenous administration in the treatment of suppurative-septic diseases]. / Lekarstvennaia forma doksitsiklina gidrokhlorida dlia vnutrivennogo vvedeniia pri lechenii gnoino-septicheskikh zabolevanii.

Efficacy of doxycycline hydrochloride administered intravenously was studied in treatment of severe purulent inflammatory diseases such as pneumonia, lung abscesses, pyothorax, skin and soft tissue infections, peritonitis, purulent cholangitis, etc.. Doxycycline showed significant advantages over tetracyclines: prolonged action, higher efficacy and good tolerance. Favourable results were observed in 85 per cent of the cases.

[Comparative activity of new semisynthetic penicillins and their combinations with gentamycin against gram-negative bacteria]. / Sravnitel'naia aktivnost' novykh polusinteticheskikh penitsillinov i ikh sochetanii s gentamitsinom v otnoshenii gramotritsatel'nykh bakterii.

Comparative antibacterial activity of two novel ureidopenicillins (azlocillin and piperacillin), carbenicillin and ampicillin against 170 clinical strains of Enterobacteriaceae and 43 strains of Pseudomonadaceae was studied. Higher antibacterial activity of azlocillin and piperacillin evident from lower frequency of resistant strains and lower MICs for the majority of the isolates was shown. Impact of the inoculum size on the MIC values was observed with respect to all the penicillins. The study on the kinetics of Pseudomonadaceae death under the effect of azlocillin and carbenicillin revealed an increase in the bacteria growth after 6- to 8-hour contact with therapeutic concentrations of azlocillin and 4-hour contact with carbenicillin. Nor renewal of the culture growth was observed within 10-hour contact with combinations of the penicillins and 2 micrograms/ml of gentamicin.