[Dynamics of the ultrastructural changes in opportunistic bacteria in the suppurative wound of an autografted...

The electron-microscopic study of opportunistic bacteria under conditions of a suppurative inflammatory process developing in the autotransplanted extremity in white rats was carried out. The staphylococcal infection of the wound on the autotransplanted extremity in white rats was accompanied by the appearance of a capsule-like formation on the bacterial cell wall, similar to the immunoglobulin covering on the cell wall of bacteria treated with blood serum. The changes of this formation were observed in time course. After the opening and draining of the suppurative focus the contamination of the wound with Gram-negative bacteria occurred. Effective combined methods of treatment were used under experimental and clinical conditions.