Менингококковые вакцины: от капсульных полисахаридов до протеаз

Microbial capsular polysaccharides for many years provided a highly practical public health vaccines for preventing meningococcal, pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenza infection, and typhoid fever. Their application in the form of conjugates with protein carriers eliminate the gap in protection against these infections in children under one year. Extremely promising turned out offered us a new generation of vaccines, which have synthetic peptides conjugated to a meningococcal polysaccharide. Thus, new approaches to the solution of the problem of meningococcal disease vaccination serogroup B were open. In recent years, Russian researchers first suggested to use IgA1 protease (one of the major virulence factors of microbes and almost identical for mentioned below infections) for prevention of such diseases as meningococcal of all serogroups, pneumococcus and hemophilia infections. Patented processes for producing of the vaccine define domestic priority of its production and use.Микробные капсульные полисахариды на протяжении многих лет обеспечивали практическое здравоохранение высокоэффективными вакцинами для профилактики менингококковых, пневмококковых, гемофильных инфекций и брюшного тифа. А их применение в виде конъюгатов с белковыми носителями ликвидировало пробел при защите от этих инфекций детей в возрасте до одного года. Необычайно перспективным оказалось предложенное нами новое поколение вакцин, где уже синтетические пептиды конъюгировались с полисахаридами менингококков. Таким образом, были открыты подходы к решению проблемы вакцинопрофилактики менингококковой инфекции серогруппы В. В последние годы отечественные исследователи впервые предложили использовать для профилактики менингококковых инфекций всех серогрупп, а также инфекций, обусловленных пневмококками и гемофилами, один из главных факторов вирулентности этих микробов — IgA1 протеазу, практически идентичную для всей указанной группы инфекций. Запатентованные способы получения этой вакцины определяют отечественный приоритет ее производства и применения

Study of antimycotic activity of lyticase

Laboratory studies of lyticase (enzymatic drug) as an antimycotic agent were carried out. The enzyme reduced optical density of Candida albicans test culture, inhibited adhesion of yeast-like fungi on vaginal epitheliocytes, stimulated the formation of germinative tubes, and made Candida albicans more available for phagocytosis. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc

Study of antimycotic activity of lyticase

Laboratory studies of lyticase (enzymatic drug) as an antimycotic agent were carried out. The enzyme reduced optical density of Candida albicans test culture, inhibited adhesion of yeast-like fungi on vaginal epitheliocytes, stimulated the formation of germinative tubes, and made Candida albicans more available for phagocytosis. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc

Damaging effects of lyticase on candida albicans and changes in the response of rat alveolar macrophages to the contact with yeast-like fungi

Changes in the cell wall of yeast-like fungi Candida albicans caused by bacterial enzyme lyticase were studied under an electron microscope. The results were compared with the findings on phagocytosis of lyticase-treated Candida albicans by rat alveolar macrophages. It was shown that destruction of the mannan and fibrous outer layers of the cell wall of yeast-like fungi treated with the enzyme led to the release of intracellular organelles and their content. Lyticase treatment reduced the resistance of Candida albicans to intracellular digestion by macrophages contributing to completion of phagocytosis. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc

Damaging effects of lyticase on candida albicans and changes in the response of rat alveolar macrophages to the contact with yeast-like fungi

Changes in the cell wall of yeast-like fungi Candida albicans caused by bacterial enzyme lyticase were studied under an electron microscope. The results were compared with the findings on phagocytosis of lyticase-treated Candida albicans by rat alveolar macrophages. It was shown that destruction of the mannan and fibrous outer layers of the cell wall of yeast-like fungi treated with the enzyme led to the release of intracellular organelles and their content. Lyticase treatment reduced the resistance of Candida albicans to intracellular digestion by macrophages contributing to completion of phagocytosis. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc

Application of electrochemical breath test for detection of Helicobacter pylori in screening of Moscow students

The incidence of Helicobacter pylori infection is analyzed by the results of screening of firstand fourth-year students of Moscow Institute of Foreign Affairs using HelicoSense Scientific breath test system. Age-related dynamics of the infection in patients examined for the first time has been traced. The data on infection rates in patients after eradication therapy are presented. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc

Application of electrochemical breath test for detection of Helicobacter pylori in screening of Moscow students

The incidence of Helicobacter pylori infection is analyzed by the results of screening of firstand fourth-year students of Moscow Institute of Foreign Affairs using HelicoSense Scientific breath test system. Age-related dynamics of the infection in patients examined for the first time has been traced. The data on infection rates in patients after eradication therapy are presented. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc