[Health risk factors in the family-members of chlamydiosis patients].

Aim: To study the characteristics of health state in family-members of ENT-patients with identified Chlamydia infection.

Methods: We have examined 245 members of 87 families of otorhinolaryngological patients with verified (44 families) and without (44 families) Chlamydia infection. Laboratory methods of the research included the identification of the following types: Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydophila pneumoniae.

[The compliance of elderly women being at the social institution.].

The aim of the work is to analyze the prevalence and severity of the psychological characteristics of the compliance of elderly women being at the social institution in comparison with the same age group living in the family and receiving support from relatives. The experimental group of the research consisted of 27 women at the age of 70-79 years being at the social institution, named Regional State Autonomous Institution Social Welfare «Sedankinsky nursing house for the disabled and aged people» of Vladivostok, from 6 to 12 months. As well as the comparative group included 27 women at the age of 72-79 years, who became widowed and lived in families.

[Clinico-anamnestic diagnostics of chronic maxillary sinusitis associated with chlamydial infection].

The present study included 201 adult patients presenting with exacerbation of chronic maxillary sinusitis. The presence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Chl. pneumoniae was verified by the direct immunofluorescencetechnique and polymerase chain reaction.

[MEDICAL AND SOCIAL STATE OF HEALTH IN FAMILIES WITH THE FOCUS OF RESPIRATORY CHLAMYDIA].

Medical and social state of health in family persons was assessed on the basis of a questionnaire. Developed by the author's questionnaire included two sections, reflecting the state of health, health risk factors and social characteristics of the family members of ENT patients. In the article there is presented an analysis of the medical and social state of 44 families of patients with diseases of the upper respiratory tract associated with chlamydial infection.

[The algorithm for laboratory diagnostics of chlamydial infection in the patients presenting with chronic sinusitis].

The objective of the present study was to develop a system of laboratory diagnostics ofchlamydial infection in the mucous membrane of the nose and paranasal sinuses in the patients presenting with chronic sinusitis. A total of 168 subjects at the age varying from 18 to 65 years were available for the examination based at the Department of Otorhinolaryngologyduring the period of exacerbation of chronic sinusitis. Chlamydia were identified by simultaneously using two direct (polymerase chain reaction and direct immunofluorescence) and one indirect (immunoenzymatic assay) methods.