[Military commissariats of the higher medical school of the country in 1920-s].

Defining influence on activity of the higher medical school of the country in 1920-1922 was rendered by military commissariats of the higher medical educational institutions led by commissioners under the general control of the Management at Narkomprose of RSFSR. Military commissioners had the right of a casting vote in board of high schools, carried out ideological control and provided performance of a class principle, operated financial questions and staffing issues, participated in the organization of educational process. Work of medical faculty of Smolensk State University (SSU) similarly was under construction.

[Study of specificity of fungistatic effect of trichothecene mycotoxins].

In attempt to realize the purposeful search of highly sensitive and highly specific microbial test-cultures the authors studied the ratio between selected before species of yeast to the wide set of different mycotoxins including macrocyclic trichothecenes (T-2 toxin, HT-2 toxin, T-2 triol, T-2 tetraol, NT-1 toxin, NT-2 toxin, fusarenon-X, diacetoxyscirpenol, deoxynivalenol, trichothecin, trichothecolon, neosolaniol, verrucarin A, roridin A, roridin H, aflatoxins, B1, B2, G1 and G2, sterigmatocystin, patulin, fusaric acid, ochratoxin A, zearalenon and their derivatives). It was supposed to define borders of specific sensitivity of test-cultures. The value of minimal inhibiting concentration (MIC) of mycotoxins, which caused fungicide action in respect of the investigated yeast strains, was used as the estimation criterion.

[Characteristic of the yeast isolated from patients with leukaemia].

It has been shown that biotopes of upper respiratory system and intestine were contaminated with yeast in 44.6% of patients with leukaemia (of 112 examined ones). Their quantity exceeds the boundary value for practically healthy people and is > or = 10(2) KOE/ml in the nasal activity and fauces and < or = 10(4) KOE/g in the intestine.

[Search for lectin producers among the yeast of Pichia Hansen emend. Kurtzman genus].

Strains (103) of yeast from Pichia genus: P. anomala, P. guilliermondii and P.