[An association of the occupational risk factors from greenhouses with allergic diseases in their female workers' children: results of analysis].

The paper analyzes an association between occupational risk factors in the female workers of greenhouses and allergic diseases in their children. The major factors contributing to the occurrence of allergic disease in children are their maternal employment in greenhouses with harmful working conditions, much dust in an apartment, a family history of allergic diseases, and unfavorable family lifestyle.

[Comparative morphological, ecological, and molecular studies of Aspergillus versicolor (Vuill.) Tiraboschi strains isolated from different ecotopes].

Cultural, morphological, ecological, and trophic properties (growth at different temperatures and on various organic substrates), as well as molecular and genetic peculiarities of Aspergillus versicolor (Vuill) Tiraboschi strains of different origins, were determined. The strains were isolated from different ecotopes (upper horizons of modern soils of several geographic regions, ancient soils and peat, and permafrost). No essential distinctions in cultural and morphological properties were revealed between the strains.

[Interaction of salts of transition metals with gramicidin S in chloroform].

Extraction of CuCl2, NiCl2, CoCl2 and MnCl2 from the aqueous phase to the organic gramicidin S containing phase (the phase ratio of 1:1) was studied with the method of molar ratios at constant concentrations of the salts and changing concentrations of the antibiotic. The composition of the forming intracomplex compounds was determined with the equilibrium shift method. It was shown that 2 ions of chlorine and 2 molecules of gramicidin S bound with 1 ion of the metals.

[Acidity and solubility of gramicidin S in water].

The acid-base transformations of the gramicidin S molecule in water were studied. The protonization constants of the antibiotic amino group were calculated by the data of the potentiometric titration and the antibiotic distribution in the system of chloroform-water: K1 1.55 X 10(10), K2 1.

[Polyene antibiotics stability, study of the rate of the heterogeneous destruction of the hepataene antibiotic levorin by an "accelerated aging" method and the possibility of predicting the shelf life of levorin].

The data on stability of levorin of various purity levels stored under natural conditions and under conditions of thermic rapid inactivation are presented. When the ratio of oxygen to the antibiotic was 1 mole/1 mole the kinetic inactivation curve was of a multistage character with periods of active destruction and quasistatic state. The use of thermic inactivation as a method of accelerated aging is substantiated.

[Method of determining the acid-base properties of antibiotics in water-alcohol solutions].

The pH scale of aqueous-alcoholic solutions titrated with aqueous solutions of hydrochloric acid and sodium hydrate was developed. These agents are most frequently used in investigation of the acid and basic transformations of antibiotics. The use of the scale was exemplified with the study of acid and basic properties of gramicidin S containing 2 amino groups in the side chain.

[Acid-base properties of gramicidin C].

The acid and basic properties of gramicidin S, a polypeptide antibiotic were studied. Calculation of the protonization constants with the Schwarzenbach method showed that the capacity of the antibiotic amino groups for protonization depended on both the solvent nature and the gramicidin S concentration. No such phenomena were observed in the study on the acid and basic properties of N,N -dimethyldiaminogramicidin.