[Individualization of the amikacin administration regimen on the basis of the relationship between its pharmacokinetics and the patient's status].

Dosage individualization based on quantitative relationships between pharmacokinetic parameters and anatomophysiological and/or pathological factors, patient's factors (PFs) is of importance in designing optimal regimens. Unfortunately, the attempts to correlate aminoglycoside pharmacokinetic parameters and PFs often failed perhaps due to insufficient numbers of PFs under investigation. That is why we sought to involve more PFs, especially nontraditional ones, for explaining intersubject variability of the amikacin model-independent parameter in 20 patients with purulent inflammatory processes.

[Experimental study of a novel formulation for local application based on gentamicin, erythromycin and protease C].

A novel formulation for local application based on an enzyme of microbial origin, C protease, and two antibiotics, gentamicin and erythromycin, was studied on various experimental models in rats with respect to its effect on necrotic tissues and recovery of the skin and hypodermic tissue defects due to wounds. It was found that even within the first days of the application the formulation induced lysis of the primary crust, lowered exudation and promoted debridement, reduced the wound size and completely closed it. By its effect the formulation was similar to iruxol.

[Tolerance of gentacycol--a local dosage form of gentamicin based on collagen--animal experiments].

Gentacycol is a local dosage form of gentamicin based on collagen for implantation to wounds in treatment of patients with infections of soft tissues and prevention of contamination of open injuries of the bones and soft tissues. General toxic and organotropic properties of gentacycol were studied on animals with subcutaneous implantation of the dosage form in doses equivalent to the therapeutic dose for man and exceeding it 2-fold. The study showed that the dosage form had no unfavourable side effects on the animal general state, hearing, the functional state of the liver and kidneys and the peripheral blood.

[Antibiotic resistance plasmids in Salmonella strains isolated from various sources].

Resistance of 60 Salmonella strains to aminoglycoside antibiotics was studied. It was found that 51 strains had a multiple resistance to the antibiotics used. By the antibiotic resistance phenotypes, the strains were divided into three major groups.

Relationship between structure and histamine releasing action of polymyxin B and its analogues.

The relationship between the structures of polymyxins and their histamine releasing action on rat mast cells was studied. Analogues of polymyxin B (PB) had different hydrophobic properties, positive charge and peptide chains (deca-, nona- and heptapeptides). The biologic activities of cyclic and decyclic heptapeptides (analogues of PB), and polymyxin M and its decyclic form were investigated.