[Human infectivity with enterobacteria and enteroviruses while swimming depending on the level of microbial water pollution].

The microbiological study of the microflora of the intestinal contents taken from children and water used for bathing has revealed the dependence of the risk of infection of humans with the causative agents of acute intestinal diseases on the level of the microbial contamination of water.

[Interrelation of morbidity with acute intestinal infections and the biological pollution of water reservoirs].

The simultaneous study of fecal samples from persons bathing and not bathing in the sea, as well as samples of sea water, was carried out in recreational zones. The presence of enterobacterial contamination was more frequently detected in persons who bathed in the sea than in those who did not bath (13.5% and 0.

[Enterovirus pollution of seawater in a health resort area].

Virological examinations of sea water specimens from the littoral zone were carried out for 5 years. The specimens studied had been collected in the areas of municipal and therapeutic beaches, port, and rivers falling into the sea. Examinations of 603 specimens demonstrated enterovirus strains in 166 (27.

Prevalence of ornithosis and other Chlamydia-like infections in the Ukrainian SSR.

The prevalence of ornithosis and other Chlamydia infections among various groups of the population, some species of birds and mammals was studied in several regions of the Ukrainian SSR. Among the town population having no occupational contact with domestic fowl and farm animals, complement-fixing antibodies to group ornithosis antigen were found in 6.5% of the examined, among the inhabitants of rural localities in 8.