[The use of computer technology in a tuberculosis control institution].

Program complexes that are being developed at the laboratory of the Research Institute of Tuberculosis (USSR Ministry of Public Health) are directed to the employment of the IBM-compatible personal computers of a diverse configuration in antituberculosis institutions of a various level. In this respect the routine work of a doctor of an out- and in-patient department supplied by the appropriate modules can be replaced by work on computers which will enable the attending doctor to fill in medical records according to the scheme of the out- and in-patient departments. A program complex was also developed for the employment of computer technology in control over the antituberculosis service.

[Characteristics of Shigella sonnei isolated from different regions of the USSR from 1974 to 1979].

The data on the relative significance of Sh. sonnei cultures in the totally of the cultures of all Shigella species circulating in different areas of the USSR in 1974--1979 are presented. The study of 527 Sh.

[Importance of control over the spread of antibiotic-resistant Shigella strains in the bacteriological diagnosis of dysentery].

The data on resistance of Sh. sonnei, Sh. flexneri and Sh.

[Use of the VShS elective-differential medium in the diagnosis of dysentery and other acute intestinal infections].

Results of trial of the VShS medium under conditions of direct seeding feces of patients suffering from dysentery and other acute intestinal disturbances demonstrated that by the efficacy of Sh. sonnei isolation it failed to differ from Ploskirev's bactoagar, was less effective in comparison with Levin's medium with levomycetin (the incidence of Shigella isolation was 49.7, 52.