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The number and species of phenol decomposing microorganisms, as well as the activity of their biochemical oxidation of phenol, were studied in waters of the shelf zone of the Black Sea, from the Danube estuary to Batumi. The number of these microorganisms and their phenol decomposing activity were higher in waters near harbours than in regions outside the anthropogenic activity. These parameters were highest in contaminated waters of the river origin. Most of these phenol decomposing microorganisms belong to the genera Pseudomonas and Bacterium, with the predominance of the species of Bacterium album and Pseudomonas desmolyticum (subspecis Pseudomonas rathionis).
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Marine Biology , Phenols/metabolism , Water Microbiology , USSRSubject(s)
Lung Diseases/diagnosis , Lung Neoplasms/diagnosis , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Autopsy , Biopsy , Female , Humans , Lung Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Male , Middle Aged , Neoplasm Metastasis , Pneumonia/diagnosis , Pneumonia/diagnostic imaging , Pulmonary Edema/diagnosis , Pulmonary Edema/diagnostic imaging , Pulmonary Fibrosis/diagnosis , Pulmonary Fibrosis/diagnostic imaging , Radiography , Sarcoidosis/diagnosis , Sarcoidosis/diagnostic imaging , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/diagnosis , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/diagnostic imagingABSTRACT
The materials concerning 19 patients with pleural mesotheliomas are analysed. The patients were subdivided into three groups according to the clinico-roentgenological picture and course of the affection: 1) four patients in whom pleural mesothelioma proceeded without exudate accumulation; 2) seven patients in whom exudate accumulation in the pleural cavity was the main sign of the tumor; 3) 8 subjects in whom the tumor developed on the side of an artificial pneumothorax many years following its cessation. Among 19 patients only in 5 cases the tumor was suspected soon after their admission to the hospital. A needle biopsy of the pleura is felt to be the most effective method of diagnosis of pleural mesotheliomas, whereas in failure of the former -- pleuroscopy.