[Infectious diseases in children living under conditions of technology-related pollution of atmospheric air].

Epidemiological and clinical studies in children with acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI) and viral hepatitis A (HVA), living in zones with different levels of technogenic pollution of the atmosphere, showed that the incidence and clinical course of viral infections in children depended on the technogenic pollution of the environment, this effect being the more pronounced, the higher the level of xenobiotics in the air. Children living under conditions of high technogenic pollution of the environment should be regarded as a group at risk of more severe ARVI and HVA with complications.

[Characteristics of acute respiratory viral infections in children under conditions of technogenic environmental pollution].

The results of observations on children with acute virus respiratory infections (ARVI) and who had long been residents of zones with different levels of technogenic pollution of the atmospheric air are presented. The technogenic pollution of the environment has been found to exert influence on the spread and clinical course of ARVI in children, this influence being the more pronounced, the higher is the level of xenobiotics in the atmospheric air. The severity of the disease is noted to depend on the development of a number of syndromes, aggravating the course of ARVI, such as the neurotoxic and bronchoobstructive syndromes.