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In industrialized countries an increased number of diseases due to immune system disorders including connected with allergy is noted. Allergic diseases generally proceed against the background of various common inflammatory diseases arising in childhood. The role of intestine microflora in its interaction with immune system and defining factors in allergization of children are actively studied. A decrease of risk of allergy development later in life for children who had grown up in the countryside was shown to be possibly related with microorganisms present in food. Thus the positive potential of farms is currently examined as a result of innate immunity activation by using microbial components. Acinetobacter lwoffii F78 isolated from cowsheds is able to protect mice from experimental allergy by activating Th1-polarization program of dendritic cells. Moreover, an important role in pathogenesis of allergic diseases belongs to mast cells. Probiotic lactobacilli may weaken activation of mast cells and release of inflammation mediators connected with allergic reactions. The ability of intestine microflora to influence immune response resulted in novel approaches in therapy that use these differences in microbiota for therapy and prophylaxis in allergy patients. And therefore on the basis of "hygiene hypothesis" of allergy emergence, a consideration is expressed that early manipulation with intestinal microbial communities may offer a new strategy of allergic sensibilization prevention.

Aim: Detection in burn patients of markers of sepsis development, its complications and outcome., Materials and Methods: Sera IL-6, TNF-alpha, IL-8, IL-1beta, IL-Ra, IL-18, INF-gamma, IL-10 and sTREM-1 cytokine levels of burn patients at days 3-6 and 10-17 after the burn were studied., Results: Statistically significant cytokine parameters in blood sera that already at the early stages of the burn disease may be markers of the course severity and sepsis outcome were obtained. At day 3-6 after the injury high level of IL-10 in blood sera may act as a lethal outcome marker in burn patients, and by day 10-17 after the burn high level of IL-6 becomes determinative. Low level of IL-1beta may serve as a marker of complicated course of sepsis in patients with favorable outcome already at days 3-6 after the injury., Conclusion: Certain laboratory parameters of human organism homeostasis destabilization may be used as markers of sepsis development, its complications and outcome already in the initial period of burn disease in severe thermal injuries.

The analysis of the spread of bacteria of the genus Acinetobacter among the invertebrate animals of the Bay of Peter the Great (the Sea of Japan): in bivalved mollusks, sea cucumbers and sea urchins Acinetobacter bacteria were detected more often than in cushion stars and crustaceous animals. The biological properties of 45 isolated bacteria were studied with the use of a wide variety of tests. The study revealed that 9% of Acinetobacter cultures isolated from marine animals had pronounced beta-hemolysis.