[Epidemiology and prophylaxis of septic infectious complications in patients from critical and intensive therapy surgical units].

Aim: To investigate efficacy of the extended complex of preventive and antiepidemic measures for reduction of nosocomial infections incidence in patients treated in critical and intensive therapy (CIT) surgical units.

Material And Methods: From 2003 to 2005 CIT units of N.N.

[Severe community-acquired pneumonia: etiology].

A complex microbiological (sputum, protected brush biopsy of the bronchial mucosa) and immunological examination of 40 male patients (the average age of 55.4 +/- 8.8 years) with severe community-acquired pneumonia (risk classes III-V according to Fine M.

[The current course and treatment of infectious endocarditis].

Clinical study of 172 patients treated in the Burdenko Military Hospital for subacute infectious endocarditis in 1980-1996 compared with 192 cases in 1950-1979. Contemporary course of the disease is attended by a few symptoms, primordiality and single-valve affection. On the grounds of antibiotics sensitivity of the most prevalent infection agents discovered in 1996, the article develops some schemes of antibacterial therapy for Streptococcus, Enterococcus and staphylococcal etiology of disease.

[An improvement in the methods for the microbiological study of the blood from patients with suppurative-septic infections].

The new method for microbiological analysis of blood in patients with pyoseptic infections is based on separate inoculations of plasma, erythrocyte mass, and leukocyte layer in nutrient medium providing conditions for growth of a wide spectrum of aerobes and obligate anaerobes. The method in general ensures a more rapid result and permits differentiation between true and false-positive bacteremia and between stages of septic process (bacteremia and septicemia).