[Guillain-Bare syndrome in a patient with tuberculous].

The article reports on the rarest case of Guillain-Barré syndrome in the form of acute motor-sensory polyneuropathy in a female patient with tuberculous meningitis, disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis, and tuberculous pleurisy. In the neurological status at the exit from the coma, the patient was diagnosed with tetraplegia, bulbar syndrome, and respiratory disorders. Further, within a week, pronounced muscle atrophy appeared.

[The physical work capacity of patients with neurocirculatory dystonia and the early ventricular repolarization syndrome].

A total of 35 patients with neurocirculatory dystonia (NCD) presenting with a syndrome of early repolarization of ventricles (SERV), who comprised the principal group, were studied for an effect of the syndrome under conditions of the bicycle ergometer [correction of veloergometer] exercise test on EKG as well as on the indices for physical performance. The results obtained were compared to those in 32 NCD cases without SERV signs (control group) and 20 essentially healthy subjects. NCD SERV cases, while in bicycle ergometry [correction of veloergometry], developed depression up to the isometric line of the elevated St-segment, and in a portion of cases it was 0.

Suggestion to supplement Shigella flexneri classification scheme with the subserovar Shigella flexneri 4c: phenotypic characteristics of strains.

A new serovar of Shigella flexneri has been isolated with increasing frequency in the USSR. It has the antigenic formula IV:7,8. We suggest that it be incorporated into the classification scheme as S.

[Biochemical properties of Shigella flexneri and their practical significance].

As the result of the study of 921 S. flexneri strains 1-6 and 4 (IV: 7,8), isolated in 31 regions of the USSR in 1975-1984, their biochemical characterization by 33 tests was made. All the strains under study proved to be typical in most of their constant signs, only some of strains 2a showed deviations in mannitol and some of strains 4a, in acetate.

[Mechanisms of hypertension in patients with terminal kidney failure on programmed hemodialysis].

The state of some mechanisms involved in AP regulation was studied in 18 patients with terminal renal failure (TRF) on programmed hemodialysis for 7-9 mos. The imbalance of extra- and intracellular sodium, potassium and water causing hypertension, was noted in TRF patients. TRF patients revealed (against a background of the normal activity of plasma renin) a high activity of carboxycathepsin resulting in the creation of conditions for enhanced kinin degradation playing a depressor role and for intense angiotensin II formation, being an important mechanism of persistent hypertension.

[Unusual serovar of the causative agent of Flexner's dysentery. I. Its distribution and biochemical properties].

The data on the circulation of some S. flexneri strains in the USSR are presented. The antigenic structure of these strains (type antigen 4 and group antigens 7, 8) is not characteristic of known serological subvariants 4a, 4b or var.

[Collection of Shigella strains of provisional serovars. II. Antigens and antigenic relations].

In the serological study of 17 strains from the collection of Shigella provisory serovars (3873-50, 2000-53, 3341-55, 3615-53, 2710-54, 1621-54) differences in the content of K-antigens were revealed: some of them (3341-55, 3615-53) were in the K-form, others (2000-53, 1621-54) in the O-form, and the rest in the OK-form. No antigenic affinity between the representatives of the enterobacterial group under study was established. The partial composition of O-antigen in bacteria of serovar 2000-53 and antigenically affined E.

[Study of a collection of Shigella strains of provisional serovars (cultural and biochemical properties)].

The author studied 17 standard and local strains of shigellae of provisional serological variants (3873-50, 2000-53, 3341-53, 3615-53, 2710-54, 1621-54). By a number of biochemical signs (alkalization of citrate agar of Christiansen and Molke's lacmus, the growth on acetate medium, utilization of soluble starch) and resistance to the genus-specific dysentery bacteriophage the cultures of serological variant 2000-53 possessed no properties of shigellae and were escherichia according to the general characteristics. The enzymatic and cultural properties of the rest of provisional serological variants corresponded to the characteristics of bacteria belonging to Shigella genus.

[Features of the monosaccharide composition and ultrastructure of lipopolysaccharides of different forms of Shigella sonnei].

The authors present the results of study of chemical monosaccharide composition and the ultrastructure of purified lipopolysaccharides (LPS) of the I and the II phases and the R-form of Sh. sonnei. The amount of lipids in LPS preparations increased with the change from S- into R-form.