Comparison of speech production in upright and supine position.

Speech is usually produced in an upright sitting or standing posture. Measurements and judgments of speech may be made in conditions requiring a supine position, however. These conditions include MRI recordings, and oral procedures, such as, adjustments to dental appliances, medical and surgical procedures.

[Adsorption of Vi antigen on human erythrocytes].

The accumulation of Vi-antigen in the human body was studied with the use of such characteristic as the specific adsorption capacity of red blood cells. This parameter was shown to depend on the phenotype in the ABO blood group system. In cases of typhoid fever an increase in the adsorption capacity of red blood cells was observed at the acute period of the disease.

[Specific antigens of the causative agents and their antibodies in the circulating immune complexes in acute dysentery].

The level of circulating immune complexes has been determined in 53 patients in the dynamics of the disease. For the first time circulating immune complexes have been found to contain Shigella sonnei K-antigen and Shigella flexneri O-antigen, as well as IgA, IgG and IgM to Shigella. Shigella antigens can be detected from the first week of the disease, and their occurrence does not depend on the level of circulating complexes in patients blood serum.

[Antibody avidity indices of the saliva and serum antibodies in salmonellosis patients].

The avidity characteristics of salivary and serum antibodies have been determined in 179 salmonellosis patients by means of the indirect hemagglutination inhibition test. These investigation have shown that, in contrast to serum antibodies, no changes occur in the avidity of salivary antibodies in the course of the disease. This is due to the fact that secretory antibodies belong to IgA which have no tendency to ripening.