Newly Woody Artificial Diet Reveals Antibacterial Activity of Hemolymph in Larvae of (Fabricius, 1775) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).

The rearing of saproxylic insects in laboratory conditions is an important task for studying the biology of insects. Through understanding nutritional needs, it is possible to optimize beetle rearing in laboratory conditions. In this study, an artificial fungi-based diet (FD) was developed for the cultivation of the darkling beetle (Fabricius, 1775) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in laboratory conditions as a model object for studying the biology of saproxylophagous beetles.

[Clinical x-ray characteristics of acute suppurative destructions of the lungs of a nonstaphylococcal nature in children].

The authors conducted complex clinico-roentgenological and immuno-bacteriological studies in 63 children, aged from 14 days to 14 years, with acute suppurative destructions of the lung, complicated with the development of pyothorax. As a result of these investigations, it was found that clinico-roentgenological symptomatics in children with acute suppurative destructions of the lung of the non-staphylococcal nature (Proteus, pyocyanic bacillus and others) show evident peculiarities and differ from typical manifestations of staphylococcal destruction of the l,ng in children. Complex clinico-roentgenological and immuno-bacteriological studies in children with the mentioned pathology enabled the authors to differentiate an infective nature of the disease.