[Experimental models of combined tuberculosis-opisthorchiasis pathology]

An experimental model of the combined course of tuberculosis and opisthorchiasis is presented in the following variants: pulmonary tuberculosis-chronic opisthorchiasis, acute and chronic opisthorchiasis in combination with tuberculosis contamination, BCG and opisthorchiasis. Specific changes in the combined pathology are shown which differ from those that accompany each of the nosological forma. Data obtained in bacteriologic, parasitologic, immunologic and pathomorphologic studies were used to describe characteristic features of the models. The results obtained allow a suggestion that parasitocenosis of mycobacteria and Opisthorchis organisms has an influence on the pathogenesis, clinical picture, diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology and prevention of tuberculosis-opisthorchiasis combined pathology.