[Residing Staphylococcal virulence as a criterion for the ecological population load]. / Residentnoe stafilokokkovoe bakterionositel'stvo kak kriterii ékologicheskoi nagruzki naseleniia.

ABSTRACT

In 1996-1999, a total of 8400 children living in 6 towns and 22 districts of the Orenburg Region were surveyed for resident Staphylococcus carriage. There was a relationship between the ambient air pollution, total morbidity due to respiratory diseases, and criterion Staphylococcus carriage. It has been found that resident Staphylococcus carriage determined by the persistent characteristics of strains may be used as universal test of microbiological monitoring in the ecological status of the atmosphere.