[The effect of therapeutic mud on the viability and persistence properties of bacteria].

The influence of therapeutic salt mud on the viability and some biological properties of bacteria, responsible for their survival in the macroorganisms, was shown. Therapeutic mud had low bactericidal properties, and enterobacteria were, on the whole, even less sensitive to these properties than staphylococci. Therapeutic mud inhibited the capacity of bacteria for inactivating complement, lysozyme and the bactericidal component of the preparation of interferon and also reduced the hydrophobic properties of bacterial cells. At the same time Escherichia were found to be more susceptible to the modifying action of the mud than staphylococci. The greatest effect on the hydrophobic properties and anticomplement activity of bacteria was observed after their incubation in mud solution.