Use of quantitative and objective enzyme immunoassays to investigate the possible association between Chlamydia pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae antibodies and asthma.

Sera from 150 consecutive patients with established asthma and 150 matched controls were examined for Chlamydia pneumoniae IgG and IgA with commercially available enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) detecting immune response solely to surface proteins of elementary bodies. The assays were also modified to measure combined immune response to surface proteins and family-specific lipopolysaccharide antigen. Mycoplasma pneumoniae IgG and IgA were measured with new commercial EIAs utilising P1-enriched protein fraction as an antigen.

[Emergency diseases of the larynx and pharynx (comparative statistics)].

473 patients with face skeleton traumas were treated. Bones of the nose, nose and paranasal sinuses, paranasal sinuses were injured in 83.7, 5.

[Emergency diseases of the ear (comparative statistical data)].

Statistical data are detailed concerning compositional, therapeutic and diagnostic aspects of urgent diseases of the ear (inflammation and traumas of the external ear, acute and aggravated chronic otitis media, acute neurosensory hypoacusis, etc.). 580 patients were urgently hospitalized to ENT clinic (Moscow General Hospital N 1) at the Russian State Medical University in 1995 for urgent diseases of the external, middle and internal ear.

[Emergencies in nasal and paranasal sinus diseases].

The paper provides statistical data obtained on 1126 patients with urgent nasal and paranasal sinus pathology of a total of 2054 patients urgently hospitalized to the ENT clinic of the Moscow Medical University in 1995. A detailed analysis is given of the incidence, diagnostic and therapeutic policy, complications in all kinds of nasal bleeding, acute and chronic sinusitis, trauma of the nose and paranasal sinuses, nasal furuncle.