[Laparoscopic resection of a simple renal cyst].

Laparoscopic dissection of common renal cysts was made in 27 patients who complained of low back pains and hypertension. The diagnosis and indications for operation rested on ultrasonic investigation and dynamic nephroscintigraphy. All the surgical interventions were performed under endotracheal anesthesia after creation of pneumoperitoneum with the use of three trochars.

[The cultivation and physicochemical properties of the Josiah strain of the Lassa virus].

Data on the stability of Lassa virus, Josia strain, isolated from man to the effect of physicochemical factors (heating at 50 degrees C, solutions of urea and formalin of various concentrations, UV irradiation) as well as on the time course of this strain reproduction in cell lines of different origins are presented. Recommendations for lowering of reactogenicity of the virus-containing material are given. The experimental results must be taken into consideration in the development and manufacture of diagnostic and therapeutic-prophylactic preparations for Lassa fever.

[Isolation of the Fomédé virus from Chiroptera, Nycteris nana, in the Republic of Guinea].

In October 1978, a new virus named Fomédé was recovered from the bat, Nycteris nana, during the studies of arbovirus infections in Guinea (West Africa). When the virus was tested, it did not fit any prototype patterns. These findings have led to a presumption that the ch.