[The functional metabolic activity of the blood neutrophils in different clinical forms of brucellosis]. / Funktsional'no-metabolicheskaia aktivnost' neitrofilov krovi pri raznykh klinicheskikh formakh brutselleza.

The characteristics of the activity of alkaline phosphatase, nonspecific esterase, myeloperoxidase, lysosomal cation proteins, lipids have been determined in the cytochemical study of neutrophils in peripheral blood samples of 127 patients with acute, chronic, primary chronic brucellosis and osteochondrosis. It is expedient to use these characteristics as additional tests for the differential diagnostics of different clinical forms of brucellosis, as well as residual brucellosis and osteochondrosis.

[Natural resistance factors in brucellosis]. / Nekotorye faktory estestvennoi rezistentnosti pri brutselleze.

A higher level of the opsono-cytophagous capacity of the blood and the quantitative content of lysosomal cationic proteins in polymorphonuclear neutrophils in the blood of Fischer rats in comparison with the corresponding characteristics in normal guinea pigs has proved to be conductive to more active elimination of the infective agent from the body of the animals after their infection with brucellosis. The indices characterizing the activity and intensity of the phagocytosis of brucellae by polymorphonuclear neutrophils of the blood in combination with the determination of the amount of cationic proteins in these cells permit the objective characterization of the level of nonspecific resistance to brucellosis.