[The rapid diagnosis of the anaerobic component of mixed infections in surgery].

Rapid diagnosis of obligate anaerobes was conducted by means of gas liquid chromatography, bacterioscopy, and monitoring. It was found that in 80% of patients the results of rapid diagnosis coincided with those of complete cultural study. Monitoring of obligate anaerobes yields generalized information on their species composition, drug sensitivity, and etiological importance in mixed anaerobo-aerobic infections.

[Changes in the composition of the causative agents of wound infection in emergency surgery in the period from 1967 through 1987].

The composition of the causative agents of suppurations, isolated from suppurating wounds of patients hospitalized at different departments of the Sklifosovskiĭ Emergency Aid Institute was studied. The proportion of representatives of different microbial families among more than 18,000 strains of the causative agents of wound infection was estimated. Fluctuations in the amount and structure of the agents were analyzed in different clinics over the period of 1967-1987.

[Mathematical approach to modeling of the treatment of suppurative processes].

Consideration of an inflammation focus as an "open system" provided analogy between microbiological processes in inflamed wounds and in systems of continuous cultivation of microorganisms. Mathematical modeling of such systems is widely used. Some of the methods for the mathematical modeling were applied to chemoprophylaxis and chemotherapy of postoperative wounds.