[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.