Abstract
The impact of alcohol toxic doses and salmonella infection on the immune system was studied. Immunogram parameters in healthy persons , patients with acute alcohol gastroenteritis and patients with salmonella gastroenteritis were investigated. Identification of immune reactivity in patients with salmonella and alcohol gastroenteritises is helpful in physicians’ practice and serves for early demarcation between data on pathologies. A higher percentage of CD19 lymphocytes in patients with salmonella gastroenteritis was observed compared to those suffering from acute alcohol gastroenteritis. The largest differences in immune reactivity were found out in immunoglobulin M indices that permits to use this index for differential diagnosis of salmonella gastroenteritis and acute alcohol gastroenteritis. A method is proposed for differential diagnosis of salmonella and alcohol gastroenteritises which permits to detect alcohol gastroenteritis with values of immunoglobulin M below 1.4 g/l and at values above 1.6 g/l salmonella enteritis is diagnosed.