The induction profile of endogenous interferons of three types under the action of meglumine acridone acetate and sodium acridone acetate, as well as the characteristics of the kinetics of their accumulation and circulation in the blood of experimental animals are described. Meglumine acridone acetate provided balance in induction, production and circulation of the interferons in the blood vs. sodium acridone acetate under the same conditions. The optimal dose of meglumine acridone acetate (2.0-3.5 mg/mouse) with effective, consecutive and overlapping induction-production of the interferons ensured their prolonged (for 72 hours) circulation in the blood after a single administration.

Behaviour of viruses and salmonellas in ticks after their single or combined contamination was thoroughly studied on laboratory animals with bacteriemia or virusemia. When Ixodes ricinus was contaminated simultaneously with forest-spring encephalitis virus and salmonellas there were observed a decrease in the virus titer by the 30^th-40^th days and its death in 60 days. In case of the I.ricinus nymphs contamination, the virus titer after the combined contamination was by a factor of 10² lower in 60 days vs. the contamination with the virus alone and did not reach the contamination dose. The simultaneous contamination of the ticks with two pathogens (forest-spring encephalitis virus and salmonellas) resulted in inhibition of the growth and development of both the virus and the salmonellas.

Tubosan, a new Russian immunostimulator is a derivative of sulfopyrimidine. It stimulated the humoral antiviral immunity in mice, provoked increasing the number of the antibody forming cells in the spleen of mice, immunized by sheep's erythrocytes, and increased the titers of the virus-neutralizing antibodies after immunization by inactivated and live vaccines VEE. The Tubosan ability to lower the reactogenicity of the live VEE vaccine provided new perspectives for using such immunomodulators in medical practice.

Pneumonia often occurs as a secondary infection after influenza and accounts for a large proportion of the morbidity and mortality associated with seasonal and pandemic influenza outbreaks. The efficacy of umifenovir (Arbidol) was investigated on a murine model of S.aureus pneumonia following A/California/04/2009 (H1N1) influenza virus infection . Oral treatment with umifenovir (40 and 60 mg/kg/day ) in all the contamination schemes increased the survival rate in the mice from 0% to 90% and lowered the animal weight loss. The umifenovir treatment also decreased the virus titer by >2 logs and the viable bacteria counts in the lungs of the mice. The lungs of the mice treated with umifenovir had less severe histopathologic lesions compared to the control group.

The effect of Hypecoum erectum L. extract on the morphofunctional condition of the liver in rats with experimental tetracycline-associated hepatitis was studied. The experiment included 40 albino rats Wistar. The animals treated with tetracycline hydrochloride (1.0 g/kg body weight) were exposed to the extract in a dose of 50 mg/kg for 5 days. On the 7th day of the experiment the following indices were determined: malonic dialdehyde concentration, catalase activity, the levels of ATP, pyruvate and lactate in the liver homogenate, as well as the blood levels of reduced glutathione. The liver pathomorphological investigation was applied. The H.erectum extract was shown to inhibit lipid peroxidation, to increase the activity of the host endogenous antioxidant system, to normalize the hepatocyte energy provision and to limit the liver degeneration.

A method for quantitative determination of cefuroxime in mixed saliva of patients with sinusitis by using spectrophotometer Shimadzu UV-1800, combined with the IBM PC is described. The conditions of the determination were the following: λ=266 nm, a quartz cuvette, the analysis time of 10 minutes. The method for determination of cefuroxime is characterized by high specificity, accuracy, use of small amounts of oral fluid and expressivity. The method may be recommended for the use in the clinical practice for optimizing cefuroxime therapy in patients. The pharmacokinetics of cefuroxime was investigated by the dynamics of its distribution in the oral fluid of patients with various infectious-somatic disorders.

The earliest eight clinical strains of Pseudomonas fulva were identified in the culture collection of pseudomonads isolated in St. Petersburg in 1995-2005, that confirmed the medical importance of the species. A high level of the species identification of all the strains of P.fulva by MALDI-TOF mass-spectrometry with the use of Microflex device with database MALDI Biotyper (Bruker Daltonics Inc.) was shown. Tests for routine studies providing identification of P.fulva without the use of genetic methods were approved. The profile of the antibiotic susceptibility of the clinical strains of P.fulva was described. Acquired resistance of two P.fulva isolates to the 3^rd generation cephalosporins and chloramphenicol was detected.

The data on the resistance frequency of the diarrheagenic E.coli isolates to antibacterial agents and a specific bacteriophage are presented. The strains were isolated from hospitalized children in St.Petersburg in 2011-2013 and belonged to three groups, i.e. enteropathogenic (EPE), enterotoxigenic (ETE) and enteroinvasine (EIE). It was shown that in the children aged from 1 month to 18 years the average antibiotic resistance was maximum in the EIE isolates and decreased in the following order: EIE (15.2%), EPE (6.0%), ETE (3.3%). The clinical EIE isolates showed no resistance to the new generation cephalosporins (cefuroxime, cephepime) and nitrofurans. The E.coli isolates of the three groups were characterized by high resistance to a specific bacteriophage which decreased in the following order: ETE (44.8%), EIE (37.0%), EPE (28.8%). The multiple resistance of the diarrheagenic E.coli isolates of the three groups to the antibacterials averaged 2.8%. The maximum frequency of resistance of the clinical isolates of the three groups to nalidixic acid was observed: EIE - 28.6%, EPE - 26.3%, ETE - 9.1%. The results of the study may be useful in the tactics of therapy of diarrheagenic E.coli infection in children.