Importance of antimicrobial factors for microbiocenosis and local immunity of the oral cavity in children with mucoviscidosis.

Unlabelled: The involvement of commensals and opportunistic pathogens and the role of protective mechanisms in the development of dental diseases in children with cystic fibrosis require more detailed study.

Aim: The aim of the study was to determine the ecological characteristics of the oral microbiota and some antimicrobial factors of saliva in children with mucoviscidosis.

Materials And Methods: The study involved an assessment of oral microbiota as complex ecological system that protects the human body from colonization by pathogenic flora in children with cystic fibrosis.

Seroprevalence of babesiosis in immunocompetent and immunocompromised individuals.

Unlabelled: Interest in Babesia species is gaining an increasing attention as an emerging tick-borne pathogen. Infection is primarily transmitted through Ixodes ticks, and alternatively by blood transfusions from asymptomatic donors.

Aim: The aim of the study was detection of Babesia seroprevalence in different groups of population with the usage of experimental B.

Implementation and analysis of Babesia immunoassay testing.

Unlabelled: Lifelong withdrawal from the donor population of those who have been diagnosed with babesiosis must be used for transmission prevention.

Aim: The aim of the study was a detection of Babesia antibodies level with the usage of experimental Babesia divergens whole-cell slide antigen and commercial B. microti immunofluorescence assay substrate slide (Fuller Laboratories, USA).

Immunodiagnostics of cerebral toxoplasmosis depending on permeability of blood-brain barrier.

Objective: The aim of the work was to detect a diagnostic value of CNSToxoIndex - index of correlation between albumin concentration and anti-toxoplasma antibodies, which reflects local production of anti-toxoplasma IgG in CNS compared with their level in blood.

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: 30 HIV-infected persons with the IV clinical stage (16 man and 14 women) aged from 25 to 49 years with clinical and instrumental signs of cerebral toxoplasmosis were selected from the general array of the patients treated in the Regional Clinical Infectious Hospital. A retrospective parallel detection of IgG T.

Pathomorphological peculiarities of tuberculous meningoencephalitis associated with HIV infection.

Background And Aims: One of the most severe manifestation displays of tuberculosis (TB) generalization is meningitis/meningoencephalitis. The purpose of this work was to improve the diagnostic efficiency of TB central nervous system (CNS) affection in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected persons.

Materials And Methods: Meninges and cerebral tissues, taken from died patients, who were HIV-infected and dead from TB of CNS affection, were investigated histologically.