[A nutrient medium for the isolation and cultivation of Campylobacter].

Campylobacter agar, nutrient medium intended for the isolation of bacteria of the genus Campylobacter from clinical material, has been developed. The composition of the medium includes sprat hydrolysate, aerotolerant additive (ferric sulfate--oxide, sodium pyruvate, sodium pyrosulfite), sodium glutaminate, agar. The selective properties of the medium are ensured by introducing the mixture of antibiotics consisting of polymyxin B, rifampicin, amphotericin B, ristomycin.

[Epidemiological data on salmonellosis due to Salmonella enteritidis in some areas of the Russian Federation].

A rise in morbidity caused by S. enteritidis at individual territories of the Russian Federation in the second half of 1980s was due to the consumption of insufficiently heated infected chicken eggs and the nonobservance of sanitary and hygienic rules in the preparation of food from chicken meat. The spread of S.

[The action of lactoperoxidase, lactoferrin and lactoglobulin on Shigella sonnei in an in-vivo experiment].

The synergism of the protective action of lactoperoxidase, lactoferrin and lactoglobulin obtained from cow milk, as well as lactoferrin obtained from human milk, was shown in experiments on white mice, infected intranasally with S. sonnei and used as an experimental model. The combined administration of these preparations in doses, each one having no protective action, contributed to the elimination of the bacteria from the lungs and prevented the death of the animals.

[The characteristics of cryptosporidiosis prevalence in Nizhni Novgorod Province].

A total of 4070 patients with acute intestinal diseases were tested for cryptosporidiosis in 1989, 1806 of these without diarrhea (controls), 286 of them working at slaughter houses, milk-packing plants and dairy plants, 192 subjects with a history of contacts with cryptosporidiosis patients in the focus of the disease, and 7 animals. Cryptosporidiosis was responsible for 3.2% of acute intestinal conditions in children; cryptosporidia oocysts were not detected in adults or healthy subjects.

[Group cryptosporidiosis morbidity in children].

The group morbidity with cryptosporidiosis (13 cases) was recorded in infants from a somatic hospital and a nursery school and also among unorganized groups. The factor of transmission was kefir prepared in the nursery milk kitchen. Cryptosporidian oocysts were not found in the personnel of the kitchen.