[Characteristics of the course of chronic liver diseases of hepatitis B etiology with delta infection in children].

Overall 120 children with chronic liver diseases of HB-virus etiology were examined. In 78.3% of the patients, RIA was used to reveal anti-delta in blood serum, 33 children were diagnosed to have chronic persistent hepatitis, 44 chronic active hepatitis, and 43 liver cirrhosis.

[The role of congenital Enterovirus infection in the pathogenesis of suppurative and inflammatory diseases in newborn infants].

Newborns with suppurative-inflammatory disease were found to be at high risk of intrauterine infection with Coxsackie enteroviruses from mothers with persistent enterovirus infection; in 54.9%, congenital Coxsackie virus infection was confirmed by virus antigen identification in the urine sediment cells and autopsy material. Coxsackie A viruses were identified in 68.