[The content of rosette-forming neutrophils and lysozyme in patients with Q-fever].

The article deals with the results of study of 35 patients with Q-fever and 30 donors to determine the content of rosette-forming neutrophils, lysozyme activity of blood and saliva. On the second week of disease it was revealed the activation of compensative immune mechanisms and on third and fourth week inhibition of these mechanisms.

[Status of cellular immunity in patients with Astrakhan fever]. / Sostoianie kletochnogo immuniteta u bol'nykh astrakhanskoi likhoradkoi.

AIM: To ascertain regularities of development of cellular immunity in patients with Astrakhan fever (AF) with reference to AF severity, treatment and course. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Cellular factors of immunity--relative and absolute contents of T-lymphocytes (early and late), T-helpers and T-suppressors, B-lymphocytes, neutrophils (early and late)--were studied in 75 patients with AF (63 patients with moderate and 12 patients with severe disease) in the course of the disease progression (weeks 1-5). The patients received antibacterial treatment--doxicyclin, rifampicin and doxicycline in combination with alpha 2-realdiron and gamma-reaferon. RESULTS: Examination of immunocompetent cells has revealed suppression of T- and B-immunity for 2 weeks in moderate AF and 3 weeks in severe AF. The number of T-helpers was low for 3 weeks while of T-suppressors rose beginning from week 2. Immunoregulatory index Tx/Tc remains low till the end of the disease. The number of early and late neutrophils increased since weeks 2 of the disease in moderate and week 3 in severe AF. CONCLUSION: Doxicycline efficiency was higher than that of rifampicin. Interferon preparations decrease relative number of early and late T-lymphocytes, neutrocytes and T-helpers but their absolute number is at the control level. Relative content of T-suppressors and B-lymphocytes is as in controls but their absolute content is higher.

[The effect of the acetylation phenotype on the course severity and outcome of acute viral hepatitis B]. / Vliianie fenotipa atsetilirovaniia na tiazhest' techeniia i iskhody ostrogo virusnogo gepatita B.

Acetylation phenotype was studied in 70 inpatients with acute viral hepatitis B. Of them, 51 had fast and 19 slow acetylation. Fast-type acetylation was associated with mild-severe form of hepatitis B, while slow-type acetylation--with recurrences and aggravations, severe form of hepatitis. The duration of HB antigenemia in the slow-type group was twice as long as in the fast-type group. Two patients, "slow acetylators", suffered from hepatitis B in the mild-severe form, later on chronic active hepatitis (CAH) developed. In "fast" acetylators the development of CAH was not observed. Thus, determination of phenotype by acetylation may be used for prognosis of acute viral hepatitis severity as well as for identification of high-risk groups and planning policy of follow-up.

[The humoral immunity indices and complement functional activity in salmonellosis during the dynamics of the disease]. / Nekotorye pokazateli gumoral'nogo immuniteta i funktsional'naia aktivnost' komplementa pri sal'monelleze v dinamike zabolevaniia.

In 65 patients with bacteriologically confirmed gastrointestinal salmonellosis of moderate severity (41 males and 24 females) the disease in an acute phase was characterized by activation of complement system and specific antibody formation, by a growth in the levels of IgA, G and M. In early convalescence IgA and IgM remained high, IgG in females returned to normal, in males was still high. An inverse correlation was found between functional activity of complement components C3, C4 and C5 and levels of IgM, IgG.

[The role of congenital Enterovirus infection in the pathogenesis of suppurative and inflammatory diseases in newborn infants]. / Uchastie vrozhdennoi énterovirusnoi infektsii v patogeneze gnoino-vospalitel'nykh zabolevanii u novorozhdennykh.

Newborns with suppurative-inflammatory disease were found to be at high risk of intrauterine infection with Coxsackie enteroviruses from mothers with persistent enterovirus infection; in 54.9%, congenital Coxsackie virus infection was confirmed by virus antigen identification in the urine sediment cells and autopsy material. Coxsackie A viruses were identified in 68.7% of sepsis cases, 42.6% with local purulent infection foci, and in only 6.7% of practically healthy neonates. Specific features of the clinical course are analysed together with the pathohistological picture of congenital enterovirus infection associated with the vertical virus transmission from the mother having a persistent form of this infection. A suggestion is proposed that the severe course of suppurative-inflammatory conditions and the general character of neonatal bacterial infection are largely determined by the immunodeficient states which are etiologically related to congenital enterovirus infections.

[Local immunity in acute dysentery. II. The content of antibody-forming cells in the large intestine mucosa in acute Flexner dysentery in the dynamics of the disease]. / O mestnom immunitete pri ostroi dizenterii. Soobshchenie II. Soderzhanie antiteloobrazuiushchikh kletok v slizistoi tolstoi kishki u bol'nykh ostroi dizenteriei Fleksnera v dinamike zabolevaniia.

Antibody-forming cells were detected in the large intestine of patients with acute Flexner's dysentery by means of the modified Jerne - Nordin method of hemolysis in agar. This method allowed one to determine the classes of immunoglobulins produced by the cells contained in tissue microspecimens obtained by the biopsy of the intestinal mucosa. The maximum amount of antibody-containing cells could be detected on days 7-12 of the disease. The content of antibody-forming cells was shown to depend on the severity of dysentery, the duration of the disease and the therapeutic methods used in the process of treatment. IgA was found to be the most frequent antigen type.

[Modified method of obtaining washings of the large intestine for determining coproantibodies and immunoglobulins in the dynamics of acute dysentery]. / Modifitsirovannyi metod polucheniia smyvov s tolstoi kishki dlia opredeleniia koproantitel i immunoglobulinov u bol'nykh ostroi dizenterii v dinamike.

The study of the washings obtained during rectoscopy from the mucous membrane of the large intestine with the use of a special attachment for a rectoscope revealed that this method had a number of advantages when compared with the study of coprofiltrates; in particular, this method allowed to obtain pure secretions of the mucous membrane free of fecal admixtures and to concentrate the gamma globulin fraction. The study of the dynamics of coproantibody secretion in acute dysentery revealed that coproantibodies were most frequently detected on the second week of the disease (reaching 85.7%), while immunoglobulins occurred in the protein fraction of the washings with almost the same frequency during the whole period of the disease.