[Principles of treatment of occupational diseases caused by antibiotics]. / Printsipy lecheniia professional'noi patologii ot vozdeistviia antibiotikov.

The contributors expound the major principles of occupational diseases treatment from antibiotics and propose to cope with the allergic reactions and dysbacteriosis with due account of the underlying pathogenic mechanisms. Microcirculation influencing drugs and corticosteroid therapies were proposed to deal with more severe cases, particularly with secondary allergic NS vasculites. Abstention from antibiotics and a long-term complex treatment resulted in health improvement and working capacity rehabilitation.

[Professional diseases caused by the action of antibiotics]. / Professional'nye zabolevaniia, vyzvannye vozdeistviem antibiotikov.

A follow-up study is presented of the clinical aspects and pathogenesis of professional diseases due to the effect of antibiotics. A progressing, stable and regressing course of the disease was singled out. It is shown that in the long-term period the main pathogenetic mechanism was allergic vasculitis caused by penicillin, streptomycin and Candida fungi.

[Structure and analysis of primary disability of health workers]. / Struktura i analiz pervichnoi invalidnosti meditsinskikh rabotnikov.

Proceeding from the MLEC data the structure of primary disability causes was analyzed among medical workers (physicians, paramedical staff, pharmacists and allied staff). The main disability causes among medical workers were malignant neoplasms, diseases of the cardiovascular system and mental disorders. The analysis of the above structure indicated potential unfavourable effect of working conditions (contact with drugs, psychoemotional load) and incomplete dispensarization of medical workers, their low medical activity.