FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: method includes determining complex of serum cytokines in period of disease beginning. In case of tick-born encephalitis level of interleukin-1 α is determined in interval 298-358 pg/ml, interferon-γ-295-350 pg/ml and interleukin-10-115-150 pg/ml; at ixodid tick-borne borreliosis - interleukin-1 α 178-270 pg/ml, interferon-γ 125-190 pg/ml and interleukin 10-11.5-18 pg/ml; in case of mixed infection, generated by virus of tick-borne encephalitis and borrelia - interleukin-1 α- 30-75 pg/ml, interferon-γ 115-130 pg/ml and interleukin-10 -22-65 pg/ml.
EFFECT: method is simple, makes it possible to determine disease causative agent reliably and accurately in short terms.
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