[Dynamics in the health of women occupied in agricultural sector of the Ukraine].

Work conditions of women engaged into crop-raising and animal husbandry are characterized by variable complex of occupational physical, chemical and biologic hazards caused by the production specificity. The latter results in increased prevalence of chronic somatic diseases and reproductive disorders (menstrual dysfunction, higher incidence of miscarriage, etc.).

[A retrospective analysis of aborted pregnancy in women engaged in agricultural production in controlled areas of Ukraine].

A retrospective analysis was carried out of failure for a woman to be delivered of a child at the natural time in those female workers engaged in agricultural production in controlled territories of Ukraine (Narodichi and Ovruch districts of Zhytomir Province). Data files were studied of 5371 histories of labor (2440 those before and 2931 after the Chernobyl accident) and 525 records of spontaneous abortion (255 those before and 27 after the ChNPP breakdown). There has been found relationship between the frequency of incomplete pregnancies and density of contamination of soil with cesium-137 in certain settlements.

[The medical aspects of agricultural production and rural ecology under the new management conditions].

Problems of rural hygiene are evaluated related to new conditions of agricultural production, technization of working processes, development of microbiological industry. Working conditions of women are emphasized. Medical aspects of ecology are discussed in detail.

[The biological characteristics of micromycetes isolated from fish roe].

The fungi Aspergillus fumigatus Fres., and Fusarium sporotrichiella Bilai were studied for their effect on certain biochemical indices of two-year carp and spawn of grass carp under laboratory conditions. The intraperitoneal introduction of A.