[Salmonellosis and concomitant yersiniosis].

Clinical description of salmonellosis and concomitant yersiniosis in 6 women aged 26-50 years infected from a common source is presented. They were members of a group of 65 women suffering alimentary intoxication the source of which was supposed to be either light-salted salmon or vegetable salad. The incubation period varied from 4 to 12 hours. The disease started as an acute infection with a rise in temperature to 38.5-40 degrees C, repeated vomiting, mucous-watery diarrhea and pain in the right half of the abdomen (largely in the ileocecal region). These symptoms provided a basis for differential diagnosis from yersiniosis and appendicitis. The patients presented with leukopenia and moderate leukocytasis with the prevalence of rod-nuclear cells (up to 9-56%). Diagnosis of mixed infection was confirmed by detection of group D1 S. enteriditis in feces and positive serological reactions with O3 intestinal-yersiniosis diagnosticum. Fever, diarrhea, and abdominal pain persisted for 5-6 days, The patients were treated by rehydration, symptomatic and antibacterial therapy (ciprofloxacin, cifran).

[About combined forms of dysentery and salmonellosis].

In Moscow, acute infectious diseases constitute more than 30% of all infectious pathology of adult population. Such combined forms as a combination of shigellosis and salmonellosis exist along with monoinfections. Addition of salmonellosis to dysentery does not necessarily worsen the course of the latter and in some cases does not express itself clinically. However, more often salmonellosis deteriorates the condition of a patient with dysentery: his/her general condition worsens, fever recommences, and defecation becomes more frequent during the recovery period. One of the characteristic forms of salmonellosis is nosoparasitism, the spread of which is not limited to infectious diseases. Nosoparasitism does not present a complication of one infection by another, but is a co-existence of two diseases, one of which as though prepares the organism for the development of the other. Combinations of different infectious diseases (syntropy) require further studies. The author adduces two own observations of the development of salmonella nosoparasitism in patients with shigellosis. The mixed infection had a moderate form.

[The oribates (Oribatei) in the feathers of birds]. / Pantsirnye kleshchi (Oribatei) b operenii ptits.

The authors confirm the fact of disperiosn of oribate mites by birds, that was earlier noticed in acarological references. More than 400 individuals of 53 virds species belonging to different ecological groups have been examined. About 50 species alive oribates were collected in bird feathers: Liochthonius sellnicki, Brachychthonius sp., Hypochthonius rufulus, Nothrus palustris, Malaconothrus egregius, Camisia segnis, Camisia sp., Hermanniella granulata, Trhypochthonius tectorum, Oribatula tibialis, Zigoribatula exilis, Scheloribates laevigatus, Sch. latipes, Suctobelba trigona, Suctobelbella sp., Fosseremaeus laciniatus, Tectocepheus velatus, T. knullei, Nanhermannia coronata, Achpteria coleoptrata, Parachipteria punctata, Damaeus riparius, Eremaeus oblongus, Diapterobates notatus, D. humeralis, Carabodes areolatus, C. marginatus, Sphaerozetes tricuspidatus, Ceratozetes parvulus, C. cisalpinus, Mycobates sp., Punctoribates punctum, Trichoribates trimaculatus, Galumna sp., Oribella paoli, Chamobates laciniatus, Neoribates roubali, Neoliodes farinosus, Oppiella nova, O. unicarinata, O. fallax, Oppia ornata, Steganacarus striculum, Steganacarus applicatus, Tropacarus carinatus, Protoribates capucinus, Scutovertex minutus, Autognetha willmanni, A. longilamellata, Belba sp., Metabelba pulverulenta, Gustavia microcephala, Fuscozetes fuscipes [symbol: see text] Pergalumna nervosa. Carabodes marginatus were met most often, on 8 species of birds, Tectocepheus velatus, on 12 species, Oppiella unicarinata--at 7 species. Some oribate species constantly occur in bird feathers.