[Clinical laboratory characteristics of the course of local oropharyngeal diphtheria in patients with chronic tonsillitis].

Of 115 patients admitted to hospital in 1994-1997 for stomatopharyngeal diphtheria (SPD), 41(35.7%) patients had compensated chronic tonsillitis (CT), while 17(14.8%) patients had decompensated CT.

[The effect of the acetylation phenotype on the course severity and outcome of acute viral hepatitis B].

Acetylation phenotype was studied in 70 inpatients with acute viral hepatitis B. Of them, 51 had fast and 19 slow acetylation. Fast-type acetylation was associated with mild-severe form of hepatitis B, while slow-type acetylation--with recurrences and aggravations, severe form of hepatitis.