[Low-manifest infections with CNS damage in patients in prolonged unconscious state of non-inflammatory etiology].

Aim: Study of specter of low-manifest infections (LMI) with central nervous system (CNS) damage and their role in patients in prolonged unconscious state (PUS) of noninflammatory etiology.

Materials And Methods: 32 patients (23 male, 9 female; age 14-58) in PUS of various etiology were examined. The main group (18 patients) received therapy against all infectious diseases including LMI; control group (14 patients)--only against common and nosocomial microflora.

[To the differential diagnosis of arthritis of pseudotuberculous and chlamydial etiology].

Aim: to define main differential diagnostic criteria for arthritides of chlamydial and pseudotuberculous etiology and to improve patient examination tactics.

Subjects And Methods: Forty-six patients with pseudotuberculosis and 41 patients with chronic urogenital chlamydial infection with articular involvement were examined. A bacteriological method of polymerase chain reaction (PCR), agglutination test, enzyme immunoassay (EIA) (IgA, IgG, IgM), indirect hemagglutination (IHA) test were used to diagnose pseudotuberculosis.

[The role of the outer-membrane antigens of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in the pathogenesis and diagnosis of pseudotuberculosis].

The degree of manifestation of the virulent properties of Y. pseudotuberculosis strains was found to be directly related to the concentration of protein with a mol. wt.

[The efficacy of using thymogen in an experimental infection caused by Yersinia enterocolitica].

The effect of thymogen of the course of the infectious process caused by Y.enterocolitica serovars O3 and O9 in guinea pigs was studied. Thymogen was introduced into the animals on day 2 after their infection with Y.

[The immunity indices in an experimental infection caused by Yersinia enterocolitica O3 and O9].

Some characteristics of cell reactions in the lymphoid organs of the immune system (the thymus, the spleen, lymph nodes), nonspecific resistance and specific humoral response in guinea pigs after their enteral infection with Y.enterocolitica serovars O3 and O9, differing in their virulence, were studied. Differences in the course and severity of Yersinia infections in guinea pigs were established: Y.