[The etiological structure of acute bacterial meningitis in different regions].

In 1985-1989 the etiological structure of acute bacterial meningitides (ABM) in children was studied in 4 largest industrial cities in different regions of the European part of the former USSR, as well as in 2 industrial cities of western Siberia. Due to the common methodological approach used in all investigations, comparable data were obtained in all cities. These investigations revealed that meningococci caused 53.

[ECHO-II virus, the pathogen of the third outbreak of uveitis in children in Kransnoyarsk, 1986].

The third outbreak of an acute infection accompanied in 3 cases by inflammation of the uveal membrane (uveitis) was recorded among infants in Krasnoyarsk in 1986. From the infants with the eye involvement as well as from those in contact with the former, 36 strains of ECHO-11 virus were isolated, and seroconversion to this virus was demonstrated. All the infants in contact with the eye patients were given gamma-globulin which seemed to limit the spread of the infection.

[Etiological study of uveitis in young children].

The etiology of acute infectious diseases accompanied by uveitis in young children has been studied. In these investigations a high degree of contamination with virus ECHO 19 in patients with acute diseases accompanied by uveitis has been revealed and the ophthal motropic properties of the virus have been experimentally established, which indicates that certain variants of virus ECHO 19 play, probably, some role in the etiology of uveitis in young children.