Immunological criteria for the selection of servicemen for service under extreme conditions

: The paper deals with the results of the comparative immunological survey of three groups: group I (450 persons), a special unit "Quarantine" undergoing training for hostilities in Afghanistan; group II (800 persons), an armored regiment assigned for home service; and group III (578 persons), students of a vocational technical school. Among the members of all three groups disturbances in the systems of humoral and local immunity were detected, but the number of immunodeficiency cases in group I considerably exceeded that in groups II and III, which correlated with considerably greater morbidity figures registered in group I. On the basis of these data immunological risk groups were formed and immunocorrective measures were recommended.