[Claritromycin in the modern schemes of eradication of helicobacter infection in patients with ulcer disease].

Out of the fifty patients with duodenal peptic ulcer having received conventional dosages of ranitidin (phamotidin) combined with Denol, metronidazole, and/or tetracycline over two weeks the relapse of the illness within one year occured in 22 percent. Of these, 44 patients had a culture isolated the sensitivity of which to antibiotics was studied with the aid of standard disks or end-point dilutions. 38.

[The anti-immunodepressive action of kumiss made from cow's milk].

Data are submitted from the experimental study of anti-immunodepressive effects of koumiss from cow milk. Koumiss as a feed supplement for white mice and chickens was found out to make for a notable increase in the number of animal specimens exhibiting a strong immune response to the antigens they had been previously immunized with. The immunostimulating effect was pronounced as well in those animals having previously received massive doses of prednizolone.

[Immunologic shifts in patients with multiple and combined injuries].

In 102 patients with multiple and associated traumas at day 1, 3, 7 and 14 after trauma, the content of T- and B-lymphocytes, IgG, IgA, IgM, complement and beta-lysins was defined. The uniform immunological shifts of the indices of specific and non-specific immunity with a different degree of pronouncement, depending on the initial immune status, severity of trauma, volume of blood loss, development of wound infection, individual peculiarities of the sufferers, were established.