[Hospital acquired infections among newborns and parturients from radionuclide contaminated and control territories].

The comparative epidemiological study of hospital acquired infections (HAI) prevalence among newborns and parturient women in radionuclide contaminated territories (RT) and control territories (CT) was carried out. Observation covered altogether 2,837,471 newborns, of these 1,617,047 in CT, and 2,378,877 parturient women, of these 1,352,831 in CT. A high level morbidity of thyroid gland diseases, diabetes mellitus, as well as puerperal sepsis and urogenital tract diseases, was detected among parturient women at RT. The specific feature of HAI among newborns in RT was high prevalence of hematological disturbances and hemolytic disease. Profound studies followed by specifically targeted programs and development of prophylactic measures should be carried out.