[Quality of life of neurological patients during therapy and rehabilitation].

A total of 198 neurological patients on physiotherapeutic rehabilitation participated in a questionnaire survey on their quality of life. The patients had diabetic polyneuropathy (n = 86), disorders in spinal blood circulation (n = 65), 47 patients were operated for discal hernia of the lumbar spine. It was found that all the responders suffer from physical, psychological, emotional and social sequelae of their diseases which deteriorate their quality of life.

[Detection of antibodies to HIV virus in saliva by express-tests in Uzbekistan].

Saliva tests, when used in screening for antibodies to HIV virus (anti-HIV), makes testing safer, easy-to-fulfill (even outside clinic) and acceptable for a majority of examinees. The main quality parameters of express-test for the detection of anti-HIV in saliva were evaluated for the purpose of using the related approach in the HIV epidemiological supervision. Saliva samples and sera of 81 HIV-infected patients and of 99 presumably non-infected persons were investigated by the "OraQuick" express-test.