[A new rapid automated photometric method in analysis of quantitative indicators of food product contamination]. / Novaia avtomatizirovannaia fotometricheskaia ékspress-metodika dlia analiza kolichestvennykh pokazatelei obsemenennosti produktov pitaniia.

Thirty-five specimens of pasteurized milk were tested for bacterial contamination by rapid autocalibration photometry for liquid, semiliquid, and homogenized hard foodstuffs, developed by the Ecotest Firm, Russia. Photometric (turbidimetric) analysis was carried out using the Labsystems (Finland) iEMS Reader plate photometer and Russian Analitika BACT software. The results of traditional analysis and the new rapid method developed by Ecotest were in good correlation, the differences did not surpass the magnitude of errors of measurements. The new method takes just 10-15 h instead of the routine 72 h and requires 300 times less nutrient media.

[The problems and outlook for delivery in pregnant women with uterine scars following cesarean section]. / Problemy i perspektivy rodorazresheniia beremennykh s rubtsom na matke posle kesareva secheniia.

Twenty-seven pregnant women with cicatrices on the uterus after cesarean section had US-monitored spontaneous deliveries with calypsol analgesia (the drug was permanently i.v. infused). The intactness of the uterine walls in the postpartum period was checked up by bicontrast ultrasonic scanning and hysteroscopy.