[Immunologic status of children living in a region with an increased level of nitrates in the drinking water]. / Immunnyi status detei, prozhivaiushchikh v raione s povyshennym soderzhaniem nitratov v pit'evoi vode.

Practically healthy schoolchildren living in the district with a high content of nitrates in drinking water experienced distinct quantitative and functional changes of immune indicators: violation of the ratio of immunoregulatory lymphocyte subpopulations, the high level of spontaneous T-lymphocyte blastogenesis, IgE-hyperglobulinemia. The above changes of the immune system could indicate both body sensitization and its desadaptation under unfavourable conditions.