[Errors in the diagnosis and treatment of infection].

The authors made an analysis of their experience with treatment of sepsis in a specialized center. Typical errors in treatment of the disease in the general public health service are: insufficient sanitation of septic foci, inadequate antibacterial therapy. Not all main possibilities of complex therapy are always used.

[Schizophrenia syndromes caused by infection].

Out of 908 patients with sepsis treated at the Republican Antisepsis Center, 19 presented with different schizophrenia syndromes (2 with acute delirium, 3 with encephalic manifestations, 3 with the amentive-catatonic form, the remainder with the amentive-depressive form). In 6 patients, psychic disorders preceded fever, in 3 patients, both conditions occurred simultaneously, and 9 developed psychosis in the presence of fever. In all the patients, with the exception of one, the diagnosis of sepsis was supported by repeated isolation of hecocultures of S.