CLINICAL PREDICTORS OF BLASTOCYSTOSIS TREATMENT EFFICACY.

Improvement of methods and criteria for diagnostics of human blastocystosis and selection of drugs for etiotropic therapy remain urgent scientific tasks of the present day. Clinical manifestations of blastocystosis in humans are diverse, and in this regard, their influential role on the effectiveness of blastocystosis therapy cannot be excluded. To assess the predictor properties of clinical symptoms, we retrospectively analyzed them in 300 patients with blastocystosis in alternative groups: group A - with good therapeutic effect (n=162) and group B - with satisfactory effect (n=138).

PECULIARITIES OF CYTOKINE RESPONSE IN CHILDREN WITH SHIGELLOSIS AND CONCOMITANT CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION.

The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of the level of interleukins of children with Shigellosis in different periods of the disease depending on the presents of CMV-infection in patients. To achieve the goal, 63 children aged from three to eight years old with Shigellosis were examined, who were treated at the Regional Children's Infectious Clinical Hospital of Kharkiv, Ukraine. It has been established that the presence of CMV in patients with Shigellosis leads to the development of cytokine imbalance which persists until the period of early convalescence.

[Results of treatment of patients with deep burns].

The authors have studied the results of treatment in 615 patients who suffered deep burns. The disability in the late period was stated in 20 per cent of patients, but only 5% of those disabled patients fail to work. Radical necrectomy and skin plasty provide shorter terms of therapy and better results.