[The effect of the acidic milk mixture "Nariné" on intestinal microflora in patients with functional and inflammatory bowel diseases].

A cultured milk mixture "Narine" (strain 317/402 lactobacilli and relevant metabolic products) given to 58 patients with various functional disorders and inflammation of the colon associated with dysbacteriosis resulted in a pronounced positive effect as related to intestinal microflora in 96.6% of the patients. In 75.

[Epidemiological characteristics of new methods of preventing omphalitis].

The prophylaxis of purulent omphalitis is an urgent problem of epidemiology and obstetrics. A high morbidity rate in omphalitis and umbilical sepsis has been noted after the treatment of the umbilical bed by commonly used methods. As revealed in our investigations, two new treatment methods have proved to be highly effective for this purpose: treatment with the preparation Narine-phi containing the metabolic products of lactobacterial strain 317/402 Narine and treatment with the film-forming preparation Lifuzol.

[Prevention of the colonization of the nasal cavity in newborn infants by hospital strains of Staphylococcus aureus using lactic acid bacteria].

Investigations carried out by the authors have disclosed that practically all infants discharged from maternity clinics are S. aureus carriers, and 91.66-97.

[Antagonism between hospital strains of Staphylococcus aureus and lactic acid bacteria in vitro and the use of the latter as a sanitary agent].

The study of antagonism between S. aureus hospital strains and lactic acid bacteria, strain 317/402 "Nariné", revealed that the latter possessed high antagonistic activity. A new method for the sanitation of carriers of S.

[In vivo study of the growth characteristics of the microflora of Armenian yogurt].

The microflora from the Armenian yoghurt was studied during its growth on the optimal for the medium (skim milk) using objectives of the Peshkoff system. It was shown that certain organisms of Lactobacterium jogorti tended to branch at the early stages of their growth, and the cells elongated and formed complex coils and helices by the third-fourth day of growth. Compact aggregates of cocci having angular outlines appeared in the culture of Streptococcus thermophilus by the end of the second day of growth.

[Cytology of the microflora of yogurt].

Changes in the cell wall and various stages of lysis become manifested on the 1-2 day of development of the yogort bacteria. Heteromorphous individuals appear both in the culture of streptococci and rods. The nuclear apparatus of the yogort bacteria is exteremely polymorphous whereas in the streptococci it undergoes changes from compact nucleoids which are either round or crescent shaped or take the form of massive super-nuclei in heteromorphous individuals.