[Antibiotic prophylaxis in the abdominal surgery in children at an early age].

Conduction of antibioticoprophylaxis (ABP) promotes the lowering of frequency of purulent-septic complications occurrence after performance of urgent intervention on organs of abdominal cavity in children aged up to 3 years, prevention of nosocomial infection occurrence, ABP is necessary to conduct, taking into account the microbes strain resistance to antibacterial preparations, defining possible "microbe--leader". During performance of conditionally clean operation ABP is conducted using intravenous injection of the antibiotic daily dose while doing premedication. For this the cephalosporines of II generation, aminoglycosides, metronidazole, are applied.

[Documented case of recurrent herpes zoster].

The paper presents a comparative description of the clinical picture of herpes zoster observed in a patient twice in 1989 and 1997. For its differential diagnosis with herpes simplex, emphasis is laid on a difference between the concepts "relapse" and "recurrence".

[The Guillain-Barré syndrome in herpes zoster patients].

A rare case of Guillain-Barré syndrome associated with herpes zoster developed on the 7th day of eruption in the right dermatoma DII-III in a man of 51 years old. The peculiarities of the symptoms, current status, liquor changes have been analysed basing on the data from foreign literature on 24 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (polyradiculoneuritis) associated with herpes zoster.

[Polymorphism of clinical manifestations of Lyme disease].

The paper describes a clinical picture of a new transmissible disease which got widespread in the Middle zone of Russia. It is caused by a tick-borne organism pertaining to new pathogenic species of Borrelia. Early in its onset Lyme Borrelia (LB) infection presented with tick-borne erythema, followed by neurological and cardiac complications eventuating in locomotor disturbances.