[A case of chronic pyopolypous pansinusitis with mucopyocele of the frontal sinus].

Chronic pyopolypous pansinusitis in a patient presenting with mucopyocele of the frontal sinus is described. A brief characteristic of cyst-like extension of the paranasal sinuses is presented. Special attention is given to the main diagnostic criteria.

[Combined local therapy in oropharyngeal diseases].

A pilot trial of efficacy of the drugs lisobact and stomatidin in local treatment of acute pharyngitis and combined therapy of tonsillitis and paratonsillar abscess included 82 patients with tonsillitis (n=30), paratonsillar abscess (n=30) and acute pharyngitis (n=22) aged 15-72 years. Effectiveness of the treatment was assessed by changes in clinical symptoms, pharyngoscopic picture and results of bacteriological studies. It was found that treatment with lisobact and stomatidin diminished considerably bacterial contamination of the paratonsillar abscess and pharyngeal mucosa.

[New perspectives in non-invasive treatment of sinusitis].

A randomized multicenter study of sinuforte efficacy and safety was made in 120 patients with sinusitis. All the patients were randomized into two groups: the study group of 60 patients received monotherapy with sinuforte in a single daily dose for 7 days; the control group of 60 patients received conventional treatment for 7 days. The efficacy of the treatments was assessed by the results of clinical, endoscopic and laboratory tests.

[Variants of plastic operations on the anterior wall of the frontal sinus].

Variants of plastic reconstruction of the frontal sinus anterior wall in its traumatic lesion is reviewed. Examination and treatment of 17 patients with the diagnosis of fracture of the frontal sinus anterior wall with a cosmetic defect were performed in Moscow hospital N 1. Plastic reconstruction consisted of reposition of the bone fragments with elevator (6 patients), reposition and suturing of the fragments to the border of the bone defect (9 patients).

[A comparative analysis of antibiotics efficacy in acute ENT infections].

The comparison of the efficacy of a number of antibacterial drugs in acute pyoinflammatory ENT diseases allowed the authors to recommend moxifloxacin as most effective in acute purulent ENT pathology. Moxifloxacin demonstrated its superiority in seeding (the highest sensitivity of the bacteria to this antibiotic), in the speed of development of the bactericidal action and in treatment results. The drug had no significant side effects.

[Correlation between the expression of Rv3286c, Rv2626c, Rv2031c, AND Rv3133c and the tolerance of Mycobacterium bovis BCG to rifampicin and metronidazole in different physiological conditions].

The fact that antibiotics exert no effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis may be attributable to the production of their persistent forms. A correlation was studied between the expression of the genes Rv3286c, Rv2626c, Rv2031, and Rv3133c and the phenotypical tolerance to antibiotics in relation to the physiological condition of M. bovis BCG.

[Prevalence of human papilloma virus types and their influence on the course of the disease in children suffering from recurrent respiratory papillomatosis].

The type of human papilloma virus (HPV) was determined in 26 children aged between 1 year 10 months to 15 years 5 months suffering from recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP). Polymerase chain reaction identified DNA of HPV type 6, 11, 16 and 18. HPV DNA was detected in all the patients including fifteen patients infected with HPV type 11; seven patients infected with HPV type 6; four children infected with HPV type 6 and 11.

[Bacterial contamination of the maxilla after radical surgical treatment].

Qualitative and quantitative examinations of the microflora in a postoperative cavity of 62 patients early after radical surgery on the maxilla with opening of the ethmoidal labyrinth have found that in spite of a noticeable antibacterial effect of the operation pyoinflammatory process in the wound is possible. Treatment basing on bacteriological findings is recommended.

[Endonasal micro-dacryocystorhinostomy in nasolacrimal obstruction].

Disorders in lacrimal passage are often caused by anatomotopographic peculiarities of the nasolacrimal tract. Surgical treatments of such patients are reviewed. The authors made endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy in 34 patients with good results.

[Immune status of patients with chronic tonsillitis before and after tonsillectomy].

Immune status was examined before and after tonsillectomy in 35 patients with various forms of chronic tonsillitis (CT). Measurements were made of main lymphocyte populations, IgA, IgG, IgM levels, functional activity of neutrophils, titers of antibodies to opportunistic microorganisms of the upper airways. It is shown that tonsillectomy produces positive changes in some immunological indices: serum IgG normalized, titers of antibodies to Haemophillus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae and streptolysin-0 lowered, initially low count of B-lymphocytes, natural killers, T-helpers rose, neutrophil chemiluminescence normalized.

[Clinico-immunological effectiveness of likopid in conservative treatment of patients with chronic tonsillitis and chronic sinusitis].

30 patients with chronic tonsillitis (CT) and 20 patients with chronic sinusitis (CS) received likopid (4 mg/day for 10 days). CT patients were additionally treated with tonsil lacunar lavage with dioxidine solution. Likopid was found effective in CT patients (good response--31%, partial response--59%).

[The role of entomology in malaria control].

The significance of main parts of entological work in malaria epidemiology and control is discussed. The role of entomologists is very important, but the present-day entological services in Russia are almost destroyed. This situation is very dangerous in the context of malaria resurgence.

[Genotypic characteristics of Rickettsia sibirica strains].

Six Rickettsia sibirica strains isolated in Siberia and Far East (Primorje) from various sources (patient, ticks D. nuttali, D. silvarum, H.

[The seasonal course in the population count of Anopheles in northern Tajikistan].

An. claviger is the only numerous species of malaria mosquitos in the mountain village of Bulgary in the Ura-Tyube District and this species occurs only in spring and autumn. An.

[Seasonal variability in the insecticide resistance and irritability of Anopheles superpictus].

The resistance and irritability to malathion, fenitrothion, propoxur and DDT (WHO insecticide impregnated papers) in Anopheles superpictus from Dangara District were determined three times in season. Complete susceptibility to malathion, fenitrothion and DDT and low resistance to propoxur probably based on knockdown mechanism were noticed. DDT and malathion irritability levels were high, and those for fenitrothion and propoxur were lower.

[Trials of the insecticides Icon and Ficam against mosquitoes in the southern USSR].

Two residual insecticides (Icon 10% WP, ICI and Ficam W 80% WP, CAMCO) were in 1989 tested in field trials in Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan against Anopheles superpictus, An. sacharovi, An. pulcherrimus, An.

[The specific nature of the irritability to fenitrothion and malathion in blood-sucking mosquitoes].

Several populations of malaria mosquitos were previously discovered to have different irritability to two insecticides of the organophosphorous group, such as fenitrothion and malathion. Individual comparison of fenitrothion and malathion irritability levels in laboratory colonies of Anopheles stephensi, An. atroparvus, Culex pipiens, Aedes aegypti, and Ae.

[The utilization of the basic theoretical tenets of V. N. Beklemishev in modern biomedical science and practice].

A brief review of the basic theoretical concepts of an outstanding Soviet zoologist V. N. Beklemishev in the field of parasitology, general epidemiology, medical entomology, theory of evolution is presented.

[The rickettsial genome studied by DNA restriction analysis].

The restriction analysis of 6 Rickettsia prowazekii strains with the use of 8 restrictases (Cfr13I, EcoRI, HindIII, MSpI, MvaI, PstI, XhoI, BamHI) has been carried out. In the presence of considerable homology in the restriction pictures of DNA in these strains some differences in 1-2 fragments within the range of 8,000-20,000 nucleotide pairs have been established. The strains under study have been divided into two groups according to the character of differences in their restrictograms: the group of virulent typing strain Breinl (Breinl, G.