[Active aluminum oxide--a new adsorbent for concentrating intestinal viruses from water].

Concentrating properties of a new adsorbent, active aluminum oxide, towards poliomyelitis virus type III and simian rotavirus are studied using virus contamination of sewage and drinking water. Optimal concentrations of the adsorbent for effective adsorption of both rota- and polioviruses are established (1.5 and 1 g/liter, respectively) at pH typical of sewage and drinking water (7.

[Virus-induced dyslipidemias as possible risk factors in the development of somatic diseases].

Experimental and clinical studies showed a number of virus infections to be accompanied by lipidemic disorders. Experimentally, dyslipidemias were found in tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in mice, rotavirus infection in rabbits, and amyotrophic leukospongiosis in guinea pigs. The possibility of correcting the virus-induced lipidemic disorders with an antiviral drug, lincomycin, was demonstrated in TBE in mice.

[Analysis of the antigenic properties of hemagglutinins of isolates of the influenza A virus (H1N1), isolated in 1986 in the Byelorussian SSR].

The influenza epidemic occurring in Minsk in the autumn of 1986 was caused by at least two drift variants of influenza A virus (H1N1 subtype) differing in two antigenic determinants of hemagglutinin from the viruses isolated in previous years (A/USSR/90/77, A/Dunedin/6/83). One of the epidemic drift variants was found to be identical in the antigenic properties of hemagglutinin with the reference A/Taiwan/1/86 virus.