[Prevention of respiratory infections by physical methods in children in tuberculosis sanatoria]. / Profilaktika respiratornoi infektsii fizicheskimi metodami u detei v tuberkuleznykh sanatoriiakh.

Follow-up of over 12 years in a children's sanatorium included 6035 tuberculosis children aged 3-14 years who had tuberculin tests reversion and local forms of tuberculosis. Prevention by physical methods (herb infusion inhalations, ultraviolet radiation and nasopharyngeal rinsing) caused an average decrease in the incidence of ARD from 22.66 to 5.58%. The efficiency of sanatorium treatment also increased.

[Effect of inhalatory therapy with antibacterial preparations on the fungal-yeastlike flora of the respiratory tracts in pulmonary tuberculosis]. / Vliianie ingaliatsionnoi terapii antibakterial'nymi preparatami na gribkovo-drozhzhepodobnuiu floru dykhatel'nykh putei bol'nykh tuberkulezom legkikh.

A total of 254 patients with various forms of the lung tuberculosis were examined on the presence of the yeast-like flora; 130 patients out of them (the main group) were subjected to complex antibacterial therapy including inhalation with antitubercle drugs and 124 patients (control) were not treated with inhalation. On acceptance to the stationary the fungal flora was registered in 22.4% of the patients including 20.9% of the males and 29.2% of the females. The fungi were found more often in old patients (33.3%), patients with diseases of long duration (29.7%) and patients with fibrous cavernous tuberculosis of the lungs (27.1%). It was shown that the local treatment of the patients suffering from the lung tuberculosis with antitubercle drugs including streptomycin had no significant effect on either the period of the fungi carrying (22.3% before the treatment and 21.5% after the treatment, P less than 0.05), or development of the fungal diseases (1.9% in the main group and 1.6% in the control group, P greater than 0.05).

[Effect of the aerosol inhalations of some antibacterial preparations on the cocco bacterial flora of the respiratory tract in pulmonary tuberculosis]. / Vliianie ingaliatsii aérozolei nekotorykh antibakterial'nykh preparatov na kokkobakterial'nuiu floru dykhatel'bykh putei bol'nykh tuberkulezom legkikh

As a result of the experiments it was found the negativation of the sputum was 2 times higher in patients treated in addtion with inhalation of antibacterial drugs as compared to that in patients using no aerosol therapy. The rate of isolation of pathogenic staphylococci to the end of the treatment course was statistically insignificant though there was some tendency to an increase. No significant difference was observed in the antibiotic resistance development in the coccal and bacterial flora of the patients treated and not treated with streptomycin in the form of inhalation.