[Role of Aeromonas in the monitoring of a hydroecosystem in the Volga-Caspian area].

The paper gives data obtained over many years on the quantity of bacteria of the genus Aeromonas in the hydroecosystems of the delta of the Volga and Caspian Sea and in commercial fishes (sturgeon (Acipenseridae), pike perch (Stizostedion), carp (Cyprinus carpio), silurus (Silurus glanis), etc.). It provides a detailed analysis of their seasonal trends and spatial distribution, markers of their pathogenicity, and antibiotic resistance.

[Sanitary and microbiological evaluation of the hydrosystem in the Volga river estuary upon anthropogenic pollution].

The paper gives many years' data on the size of the opportunistic and sanitary-significant microflora of pike perches (Stizostedion) and water in the producer's food fish areas of the Volga river estuary, as well as the results of ecological and microbiological studies of the water from the above areas, which include the determination of the total amount of the bacterial plankton on membrane filters, the number of heterotrophic bacteria, which has provided an assessment of the habitat quality of hydrocoles in accordance with the complex ecological classification of the quality of the land's surface water. The paper analyzes the seasonal abundance and spatial distribution of the most common opportunistic microorganisms, as well as the markers of their pathogenicity.

[On vitamin B1 metabolism in avitaminosis and its correction with thiamine and taurine].

The levels of phosphate esters and the activities of thiamine biotransformation enzymes in the blood and tissues of albino rats were studied during oxythiamine-induced B1 deficiency and after metabolic correction with thiamine and taurine. Among thiamine phosphates, the most informative indicators of thiamine deficiency were shown to be triphosphate esters and free thiamine diphosphate. The biosynthetic enzymes thiamine kinase and thiamine diphosphate kinase played a decisive role in maintaining the initial rate and in recovering the physiologically active forms of vitamin B1.