[The personified accounting and intra-team distribution of the workload of pathologists, by using a procedure for their work quota setting].

The paper considers approaches to applying the methods for setting work quotas in pathologists for the personified accounting and intra-team distribution of their workload. These approaches include an algorithm and all necessary formulas for the calculation of the relevant indicators that make it possible to use the methods for work quota setting. The essence of the proposed approaches is demonstrated with a specific example.

[Work quota setting and man-hour productivity estimation in pathologists].

The paper considers the development and current state of the regulation of work quota setting and remuneration in pathologists. Reasoning from the current staff standards for morbid anatomy departments (units), the authors present a method to calculate the load of pathologists. The essence of the proposed method is demonstrated using a specific example.

[Morphological diagnosis of tuberculosis under present-day conditions].

The paper presents general statistical data on morbidity and mortality rates of tuberculosis, which show positive trends in recent years, with exception of those of its concurrence with HIV infection. The tasks of the morphological diagnosis of tuberculosis are divided into 4 groups: 1) to refine approaches to detecting mycobacteria in tissues; 2) to optimize the postmortem diagnosis of tuberculosis; 3) to optimize the lifetime differential diagnosis of tuberculosis and to develop methods for predicting its course; 4) to study the pathogenesis of tuberculosis from the standpoint of modern views on an infectious process. The data suggesting that the tissue forms of mycobacteria, the types of inflammatory responses, and the specific features of the pathogenesis of tuberculosis call for further investigations are given.

[The molecular biological characteristics of the pathogen of tuberculosis and the pathoanatomic aspects of its fatal outcomes in Irkutsk in 2008-2011].

The paper gives the results of examining 163 autopsy cases of tuberculosis in Irkutsk. The forms of the disease are characterized, by identifying generalized large focal necrotic focal tuberculosis. MIRU-VNTR genotyping defined M.

[Pneumococcal lobar (croupose) pneumonias: clinical and morphological characteristics].

The paper presents data on morbidity and mortality rates from pneumococcal pneumonias and current views on the properties of pneumococcus. Analysis of the autopsy specimens obtained from Irkutsk and Saint-Petersburg shows that pneumococcal lobar pneumonia remains a common disease. A lethal outcome more frequently occurs during the first 24 hours of hospitalization, there is a high rate of discrepancy between the clinical and autopsy diagnoses.

[Problems in standartization of population fluorographic screening].

The authors have developed the methodology and techniques for standardizing fluorographic screening by using computed technology. The proposed does not require any manually written registration, the accounting of both patient and fluorogram in-and-outflows, the keeping on-going medical documents and paper archives. At the same time the technique allows one to form computerized lists, the dates of patients' visits, to control radiologists' activities, to supervise control over the use of hospital and mobile equipment, to plan expendable materials, etc.

[The epidemiology of cholera in Derbent District. The characteristics of the epidemic process].

Cases of cholera in the Derbent District of the Daghestan took predominantly mild and moderate clinical forms. The ratio of patients to Vibrio carriers was 1:1.25.

[The epidemiology of cholera in Derbent District, Dagestan. The routes of the importation and spread of cholera].

The epidemic of cholera in the Derbent District of the Daghestan was imported into the region. 172 cholera patients and 204 Vibrio carriers were registered in 23 settlements of the region during the period of June 26 to October 12, 1994. The wide spread of this infection was facilitated by high migration activity of the population and the belated introduction of measures for limiting migration.