[Allergic effects on the population of industrial air pollutants].

Increasing of the allergization of the population in industrial regions caused by chemical pollution of the air was noted. Some changes in respiratory tract and blood count were reported also.

[The rate of isolation of fungi in the genus Candida from the nasopharyngeal mucosa of the those in contact with the products from microbial protein manufacture].

In the mycological study of the air in working rooms at enterprises for the production of paprin and in the airspace of residential areas, as well as the study of the fungal contamination of the upper respiratory ways in workers and residents of the development zone, the isolation rate of the production fungal strains of the genus Candida from the nasopharynx was shown to depend on their content in the air. In the absence of producer microorganisms in the atmospheric air they were not detected among the population. The detection of yeast-like fungi of the genus Candida on the pharyngeal mucosa is of sanitary demonstrative importance for the evaluation of the specific microbial contamination of the air in working rooms and the air space of the development zone.

[The dynamic immunological indices in in vivo stimulation with a Candida antigen].

The results of the study of some immunity characteristics in patients with broncho-pulmonary diseases of allergic etiology, appearing under the influence of yeast-like fungi of the genus Candida, before the intradermal injection of Candida antigen and 24 and 48 hours after such injection are presented. A decrease in the content of peripheral blood lymphocytes, in the levels of T- and B-cells, changes in the frequency and intensity of immediate and delayed hypersensitivity reactions under the influence of antigenic stimulation have been established.

[Medico-biological criteria of the evaluation of air quality at the site of microbiological synthesis plants].

The efficacy of environmental protection in the areas of location of protein synthesis microbiologic plants was analyzed. It was established that under the conditions of observance of a technological regime and the stability of the gas cleaning systems for industrial affluents the operation of the plants caused no air pollution of residential districts by fungi producers and protein dust of the finished product. The study revealed the absence of detrimental health effect of microbiologic products.