[The likely role of protozoa in the maintenance of the environmental circulation of enteroviruses].

The purpose of the study was to define the likely role of protozoa as a possible natural reservoir for enteroviruses and their involvement in enterovirus-induced serous meningitis morbidity. Samples were taken from the running and standing water reservoirs of the Orenburg Region in the summer-autumn period and those of wastewaters were collected at all purification stages. Enteroviral RNA in the protozoan cultured was detected by the reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The Ural River was found to contain 72 protozoan species; there were 15 and 38 protozoan species in the lakes and wastewaters, respectively. With PCR, enteroviruses were detected in 61.8% of the cultures of protozoa which belonged to 23 species of flagellates, amoebas, and infusoria isolated from the natural water reservoirs exposed to an anthropogenic load, as well as from the wastewaters at all purification stages. The predominant localization of enteroviruses was observed in the dominant taxons of the protozoa Paraphysomonas sp., Spumella sp., Petalomonas poosilla, Amoeba sp.

[Contamination of protozoa by enteroviruses in fresh water and sewages].

AIM: To determine rate of infection of protozoa by enteroviruses to assess the potential role of protozoa as a natural reservoir of enteroviruses. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The samples were collected from flowing and stagnant water reservoirs in Orenburg region in summer and autumn. The samples of sewages were taken in all stages of their treatment. Cultures of protozoa were isolated with micromanipulator equipped with micropipette, incubated on Pratt's medium at 25 degrees C and fed with Pseudomonas fluorescens culture. RNA of enteroviruses was detected by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). RESULTS: Seventy-two protozoan species were found in Ural river, whereas 15 and 38 species were found in lakes and sewages respectively. Enteroviruses were detected by RT-PCR in 61.8% cultures of protozoa belonging to 23 species of flagellates, amoebae and ciliates isolated from natural water bodies undergoing anthropogenic impact as well as from sewages in all stages of their treatment. Predominant localization of enteroviruses in dominant taxons of protozoa (Paraphysomonas sp., Spumella sp., Petalomonas poosilla, Amoeba sp.) was noted. CONCLUSION: Obtained data confirm presence of enteroviruses in protozoa living both in flowing and stagnant recreation natural water bodies as well as in sewages and confirm the hypothesis of persistence of enteroviruses in protozoa and the reservoir role of the latter. Contingency of life cycles of viruses and protozoa allows to explain the seasonality of aseptic meningitis incidence caused by enteroviruses, which peaks in summer and autumn when protozoa massively multiply in water bodies.

[Intermediate substrates in different stages of compensation of diabetes mellitus]. / Substrati ot intermediernata obmiana pri razlichna stepen na kompensatsiia na zakharniia diabet.

In this research there were studied the changes in the concentrations of pyruvate, lactic acid, maleate, beta-oxybutyric acid oxyacetyc acid, blood fats, triglycerides, cholesterol blood lipoproteins in patients in different stages of compensation of diabetes mellitus. Studied were 44 patients during ablatio retinae during latentive diabetes, 16 patients with decompensated, 12 with subcompensated, and 8 with compensated diabetes. The average age of the studied patients was 54 years. The control group of 35 healthy people was of average age 52 years. All the groups show decreasing of the blood maleat. In the group of decompensated diabetes decreasing of keto-bodies, piruvat acid and lipid fractions was present. These factors were normalized, when diabetes was compensated. In this study, the diagnostic value of the investigation metabolites for compensation of diabetes mellitus is discussed.

Levels of some cytokines in subretinal fluid in proliferative vitreoretinopathy and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.

PURPOSE: To determine the cytokine-mediated pathways of inflammation in the clinical course of proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). METHODS: Cytokines IL-2, IL-6, INF-gamma were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. Aspirates of subretinal fluid were obtained from 14 eyes with PVR and six with uncomplicated rhegmatogenous retinal detachments. Aspirates obtained via pars plana from ten cadaver vitreouses of normal eyes were used as controls. RESULTS: Subretinal fluids from eyes with PVR, uncomplicated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and cadaver vitreous contained low concentrations of IL-2, with inconsequential differences between groups. IL-6 and IFN-gamma were twice as high in the subretinal fluid from eyes with rhetmatogenous retinal detachment as in cadaver vitreous. INF-gamma was elevated up to six times in eyes with PVR compared to controls. Fibronectin was found in a larger proportion of eyes with PVR than with uncomplicated rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and cadaver vitreous from healthy persons. CONCLUSIONS: These are only preliminary investigations and are too few for statistical analysis. The results suggest that cytokine-mediated pathways of inflammation are involved in the pathogenesis of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and in cellular interactions leading to the development of PVR.