XAFS experiments at beamline I811, MAX-lab synchrotron source, Sweden.

A description of a new facility for X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the materials science beamline, I811, at MAX-lab synchrotron source, Lund, Sweden, is given. The beamline is based on a superconducting multipole wiggler source inserted in a straight section of the 1.5 GeV MAX-II ring.

[New approaches to diagnosing and treating hyperkinetic biliary dyskinesia associated with chronic acalculous cholecystitis].

Ninety patients aged 21 to 56 years who had chronic non-calculous cholecystitis (CNCC) concurrent with hyperkinetic dyskinesia (HKD) detectable by a stepwise duodenal probing and sonography, by using a choleretic breakfast and by determining the relaxation coefficient (RC) that was equal to the ratio of the volume of the gallbladder (GB) after the use of a spasmolytic to the baseline GB volume. The patients were divided into 3 groups. The authors used as a spasmolytic agent pinaverium bromide (dicetel) in a dose of 50 mg (1 tablet) in Group 1), octylonium bromide (spasmomen) in a dose of 40 mg (1 dragee) in Group 2, and drotaverine (no-spa) in a dose of 40 mg (1 tablet).

[Sporadic cases of Legionella pneumonia].

Clinicoroentgenological presentation of Legionella-induced pneumonia diagnosed in a pulmonological department of the Khabarovsk regional hospital is illustrated on 5 cases confirmed serologically. Sporadic legionellosis is characterized by: an acute onset simulating croupous pneumonia, a severe lingering course, ++semi-segmental type of infiltration, pleural involvement, drastic alterations of peripheral blood (leukocytosis shift to the left, accelerated ESR), resistance to penicillin, cephalosporin and aminoglycoside antibiotics in contract to erythromycin exhibiting a pronounced therapeutic effect.

[Conjugative R-plasmid resistance of the causative agents of Yersinia infection].

Nature, structure, occurrence and drug resistance of 160 strains of Y. pseudotuberculosis and 60 strains of Y. enterocolitica isolated from various sources within 1986-1988 were studied.