[Species composition of anaerobic microflora in parodontal pocket depending upon disease stage].

With the help of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) the dynamic of species composition of anaerobic microflora in cases of generalized parodontitis was established. It was detected that disease severity increase was followed by the increase of the number of anaerobic microflora species in parodontal pocket; at that it was impossible to connect the presence of some determined type of microorganism with the inflammatory parodontal process intensity. It was shown that proteins fimbrilin and gingipain were not the only parodontitis pathogenic factors although the first one (fimbrilin) could be connected with aggressive disease flow. The suggested PCR scheme could be useful for early disease stage diagnostic and substantiation of antimicrobial therapy method selection.

[Prophylaxis of wound infection in patients with head and neck tumors with an account of the pathogen taxonomic pattern].

The most important problem of onkology, i. e. antibiotic prophylaxis and treatment of postoperative infectious complications is touched upon in the paper. The current publications on the problem are discussed and the autors' experience on the treatment is described. The spectrum of the main pathogens of wound infections in patients with head and neck tumors is considered.

[Effect of technical threonine sources on homoserine biosynthesis by mutant Brevibacteruim flavum 2T]. / Vliianie tekhnicheskikh istochnikov treonina na biosintez gomoserina mutantom Brevibacterium flavum T 2T.

The effect of threonine technical sources on the homoserine biosynthesis by the threonine auxotroph Brevibacterium flavum 2T when cultivated on sucrose and acetic acid containing media was investigated. Various threonine sources (corn extract and fodder yeast, microbial biomass and soybean meal hydrolyzates) prepared by means of different hydrolyzing agents (acids, enzymes, autolysis) were used. The most effective substrate was protein--vitamin concentrate hydrolyzate, particularly combined with corn extract in the ratio 1: 0,25-0.5 (with respect to the dry weight of the initial material). The homoserine yield was 16.2 g/l on the sucrose containing medium and 18.4 g/l on the acetic acid containing medium which was in agreement with controls. The medium containing pure threonine was used as a control. With other threonine sources (corn extract, protein-vitamin concentrate autolyzate and enzymolyzate, fodder yeast and soybean meal hydrolyzates), the homoserine production was significantly lower, i.e. 40-70% of the control. The content of amino acids (threonine, isoleucine, methionine) in the initial material and their suitability for the homoserine biosynthesis were found to be correlated. The substrates with a high content of threonine (over 3.5%) and a low content of methionine (below 0.5%) proved most effective. The use of the material in which the ratio threonine: methionine was less than 6.0 caused the homoserine biosynthesis to be partially replaced with that of lysine.

[Effect of the carbon source and aeration conditions on homoserine lysine biosynthesis in the threonine-dependent mutant Brevibacterium flavum 2T]. / Vliianie istochnika ugleroda i uslovii aératsii na biosintez gomoserina i lizina u treoninzavisimogo mutanta Brevibacterium flavum 2T.

The effect of two carbon sources (sucrose and acetate), aeration conditions and threonine concentration on the homoserine and lysine biosynthesis by the threonine-dependent mutant Brevibacterium flavum 2T was examined. It was demonstrated that acetate provided the predominant synthesis of homoserine to a far greater extent than sucrose (with the weight/weight ratio of homoserine : lysine being 2.5-5.0 and 0.8-1,2, respectively). The maximal level of homoserine and lysine was 18-21 and 3-7 g/l on the acetate containing medium and 18-22 and 12-16 g/l on the sucrose containing medium, respectively. On sucrose the total amount of amino acids and the total yield of products as related to the consumed substrate were greater than on acetate. Using the sucrose medium, the effect of aeration conditions and threonine concentration on the biosynthesis of both compounds was investigated. With an aeration increase from 1.3 to 4.6 g O2/l.hr the optimal concentration of threonine in the medium grow. The biosynthesis of homoserine was less sensitive to the inhibitory effect of excessive threonine than that of lysine. With an increase of the threonine concentration in the medium from 0.25 to 3.0 g/l the ratio homoserine : lysine grew from 1.03 to 5.20 (with the sulphite number being 4.6 g O2/l.hr). This effect was independent of the aeration conditions.