[An immunohistochemical analysis of local immunity in Salmonella and dysenteric infections]

Immunohistochemical analysis was performed in 21 patients with acute and chronic dysentery, in 32 patients with different forms of salmonellosis in comparison with the cytoenzymatic status (CES) of immunocytes in the mucous membrane of the large intestine. It has been revealed that for acute dysentery the activation of the cellular and humoral links of local immunity is typical, but for salmonellosis--mainly of the humoral one. The chronic processes in dysentery and salmonellosis are connected with the increase in the subpopulation of T8-suppressors. Immunohistochemical data correlate completely with CES of immunocytes and that allows one use them with prognostic purposes.