Revisiting the status of oral health services in adult PM&R programs: a 40-year follow-up survey.

Purpose: This survey compared the status of oral health service access and needs for adult Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) patients over a 40-year period.

Methods: This report compares two surveys (1974 vs. 2014) of Directors of PM&R residency programs in the United States.

[Experience of application of multiplex qPCR for differential diagnostics of intestinal viral infections].

Aim: Evaluate the effectiveness of multiplex reverse transcription (RT) and polymerase chain reaction with fluorescence detection in real time mode (qPCR) methods for differential detection of 11 groups of intestine viruses (adenoviruses, enteroviruses, polioviruses, hepatitis A and E viruses, group A and C rotaviruses, orthoreoviruses, noroviruses, sapoviruses and astroviruses) in various biological samples.

Materials And Methods: Panels of virus isolates and clinical samples characterized by reference methods were used to evaluate sensitivity of detection of various intestine viruses. Nucleic acids were isolated from study samples and multiplex RT and qPCR were carried out.

[Use of multiplex PCR method with real-time detection for differential diagnosis of respiratory viral infections].

Multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction test-system with fluorescent detection (RT-PCR) for simultaneous identification of main agents of acute respiratory viral infections: influenza A (IAV) and B viruses (IBV), parainfluenza viruses types 1, 2, 3, 4 (PIV 1 - 4), adenoviruses (ADV), respiratory syncitial virus (RSV), rhinoviruses (RV) and enteroviruses (EV), in presence internal positive control (IPC) represented by vaccine strain of rubella virus RA 27/3. Using multiplex RT-PCR method, respiratory viruses were detected in 116 out of 226 clinical samples (nasal swabs) obtained from patients with symptoms of acute respiratory infection: in 68 (58.6%) samples--IBV; in 21 (18.

The effect of mass influenza immunization in children on the morbidity of the unvaccinated elderly.

The objectives of these studies were to analyse the effect of mass influenza immunization in children on the morbidity of unvaccinated non-institutionalized elderly during an influenza epidemic. A mass vaccination campaign with vaccine was conducted in children aged 3-6 years attending kindergartens (57.4% of 6374) and aged 7-17 years attending schools (72% of 34237) in two communities of the Moscow region.