[Live enteroviral vaccines for the emergency nonspecific prevention of mass respiratory diseases during fall-winter epidemics of influenza and acute respiratory diseases].

The results of the 3-year controlled trials of a new method of nonspecific urgent prophylaxis of influenza and acute respiratory diseases (ADR) by immunization of healthy adults with standard live enterovirus oral vaccines, introduced in 2-3 administrations at intervals of 7-10 days, at the initial stages of autumn and winter epidemics are presented. Observations, carried out in three republics, covered more than 150,000 persons immunized with enterovirus interferonogenic vaccines. A considerable decrease in morbidity rate among the vaccinees was achieved (on the average, by 3.

[Electrophoretic analysis of genome RNA of human rotaviruses].

The schemes for profiles of migration of RNA segments from human rotaviruses isolated in Gorky city in 1981-1987 are presented. The groups of the "long", "short" and "wide" electrophoretypes were identified. The dominant rotaviral phoretypes are determined.

[Data on the epidemiology of rotavirus infection].

The findings of epidemiological study of rotavirus infections among children in Gorki over the period of 1981-1985 are analyzed. The age of the patients is specified, as are the disease seasonal patterns and the incidence rates of its manifest and asymptomatic forms, and of carriership cases among healthy children in different foci of this infection.