[Thalamic lesion in tick-borne encephalitis].

Signal enhancement on T2-weighted images of the thalamus on one or both sides by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is among the most frequently observed neuroradiological findings in patients with acute tick-borne encephalitis. The article presents a clinical case of a patient who had an encephalo-polyoencephalomyelitic form of tick-borne encephalitis with MRI picture of a typical bilateral thalamic lesion. Such changes according to neuroimaging studies may have a clinical differential-diagnostic value, and the knowledge of these features by neuroradiologists and neurologists will contribute to the correct diagnosis of acute tick-borne encephalitis, especially most severe forms.

Universal immunization: the diphtheria control strategy of choice in the Republic of Tajikistan, 1993-1997.

During the 1993-1997 diphtheria epidemic in Tajikistan, the incidence rate was the highest observed throughout the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union (76.2 cases/100,000 population in 1995). Factors that contributed to this situation included an increase in the number of persons who were not fully immunized, a breakdown of health care services and disease surveillance, civil war, an increase in migration, shortages of qualified medical personnel, and shortages of products, resources, and services.

[Possibilities of reducing the duration of the treatment of patients with tuberculous spondylitis].

In the article are described the results of operative treatment of 185 patients with tuberculous spondylitis. In order to restore stability there was carried out posterior spondylidesis after Genle with removal o ffoci by means of posterior access in 70 patients. 115 patients were subjected to anterolateral spondylidesis, 55 of them--by generally accepted method and 60--with creation of trapezoid lock between the body of a vertebra and transplants.

[Optimization of the fatty acid makeup of the culinary fats in Central Asian national recipes].

A formulation for a mixture made of mutton fat and cotton seed oil containing 20.2% of linolic and 36.5% of oleinic acid is given.