[Typing of group A streptococci isolated from urban population of different social status and age].

Pulse-electrophoresis, sequencing of emm genes coding protein M and PCR analysis of speA, speB, and speC genes were used for characterization of group A streptococci (GAS) isolated in different years in Moscow and Tuapse mostly from children and military staff. It has been shown that epidemic process of streptococcal infection caused by GAS in Moscow is based on circulation of many independent clones of Streptococcus pyogenes. Obtained data on complex typing of S.

[Characteristics of disorders of general sensitivity in patients with depression].

In 135 patients with the depressive syndrome within the framework of manic-depressive psychosis, spontaneous sensory disorders (paresthesia, somatalgias, visceralgias, cenesthopathies) as well as sensory disorders revealed on special objective investigation of the sensitivity (disorders of the protopathic and epicritical types of reception, ++musculo-articular feeling) are described depending on different syndromal coloration of depression. The use of factorial analysis allowed the establishment of a relation of different disorders of general sensitivity to the formation of the psychopathological manifestations of depression: vital character of affect, hypochondriac symptomatology, anesthetic disturbances.

[An attempt to prognosticate the rehabilitation of patients who have sustained closed brain injury].

The authors studied at the early and remote stages of the disease the adaptational function of analyzers (visual, acoustic, olfactory) and constructive practical actions in 82 patients who had suffered from closed brain traumas in peace-time. The same studies were conducted in 59 patients with remote sequealae of brain injuries during the wartime (barotraumas) for comparison. The authors compared the results of the studies on patients with different outcomes of rehabilitation and different kinds of brain injury and depicted some indices and manifestations unfavourable or relatively favourable for a social and occupational prognosis.