[Experience in verifying hepatitis E in Ukraine]. / Opyt verifikatsii gepatita E na Ukraine.

An outbreak of viral hepatitis B at a sugar refinery in the Ukraine was verified by the detection of HBs antigens and IgM antibodies to hepatitis A virus in the radioimmunoassay. Cases of hepatitis E among workers, employed mainly in heat-treatment departments, appeared due to mass contamination of water mains with sewage water from the residential zone in the presence of a few cases of the disease.

[Psychiatric disorders of vascular genesis in women who committed crimes]. / Psikhicheskie narusheniia sosudistogo geneza u zhenshchin, sovershivshikh obshchestvenno opasnye deistviia.

56 women having cerebral arteriosclerosis and arterial hypertension and committed crimes were observed. Serious psychic derangements such as chronic delirious psychoses, weak-mindedness, short-term mental conditions were regular features among aggressive women committing crimes. General medical practitioners are recommended to have such patients consulted by the psychiatrist.

[A comparison of the radioimmunologic and immunoenzyme methods of detecting HBsAg]. / Sravnenie radioimunologicheskogo i immunofermentnogo metodov vyiavleniia HBsAg.

The frequency of HBsAg detection by these two methods is similar, but only half of positive results is confirmed by both methods. This discrepancy appears to be explained by inadequate technology of the reagent preparation or by impossibility to rule out false-positive results. Combinations of highly sensitive methods for HBsAg indication are recommended for clinical diagnosis of hepatitis B.