[The development of kit for hybridization extraction of DNA and RNA of agents of hemotransmissive infections from serum and blood plasma].

To decrease dependence of effectiveness of isolation of nucleic acids of composition and amount of applied sample a kit was developed for hybridization extraction of DNA HBV RNA HCV and RNA HIV from blood serum in two formats--using up to 250 mkl and up to 1 ml of sample. This kit, in complex with kits for detection using polymerase chain reaction technique in real-time, forms a test characterized by high analytical sensitivity i.e.

[Female tuberculosis morbidity and mortality in the Sverdlovsk Region].

In 2000 to 2006, the female proportion increased in the structure of tuberculosis morbidity from 21.4 to 30.1% and in that tuberculosis mortality from 13.

[Tuberculosis and HIV infection in the Sverdlovsk Region].

In 2003, there were 6.9-, 4.6-, and 5.

[Tuberculosis in the prisons of the Sverdlovsk Region].

In 1997 to 2002, the Sverdlovsk Region showed a reduction in the proportion of the accused and prisoners among adults and adolescents from 37.2 to 17.3% in the structure of tuberculosis morbidity and from 18.

[Tuberculosis in children from the Sverdlovsk Region].

The tuberculosis morbidity rate in BGC-unvaccinated infants is 18 times greater than that in BCG-vaccinated infants and 6 times higher than the rate of complications due to BCG vaccination. If a scar due to BCG vaccination is absent or 1-2 mm, the tuberculosis morbidity in children of 3 years of life is 7 times higher than when a 3-mm or more scar has formed after vaccination. The technological failures are main causes of complications due to BCG vaccination.