[Outbreak of enteroviral infection in Vitebsk during pollution of water supply by enteroviruses].

The conducted virologic, serological and molecular-and-biological investigations showed that virus Coxsakie B4, isolated from cerebrospinal fluid and rhinopharyngeal lavages of patients, was the main etiological agent, which caused mainly an outbreak of enterovirus infection in the city of Vitebsk in 2001. Coxsakie B4 viruses were found in 30% of samples by using the cultural method and in 76.9% of samples--by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) while carrying out the sanitary-and-virologic investigations in drinking water, including in infection foci.

[The action of reserpine in experimental rabies infection].

Experimental studies in laboratory animals showed reserpine in doses of 0.01-0.05 mg/kg body weight to inhibit the development of rabies infection in white mice and rabbits by 40.

[Search for inhibitors of West Nile virus among antibiotics].

The activity of 24 antibiotics was studied in treatment of albino mice with experimental encephalitis caused by West Nile virus. The antiviral activity of gentamicin and kanamycin was stated. The survival rate of the animals 19.