Epizootiological Monitoring of Natural Focal Infections in the South of the European Part of the Russian Federation in 2017

• Main Authors: N. F. Vasilenko, O. V. Maletskaya, D. A. Prislegina, E. A. Manin, O. V. Semenko, L. I. Shaposhnikova, A. S. Volynkina, Ya. V. Lisitskaya, T. V. Taran, N. G. Varfolomeeva, E. V. Gerasimenko, A. N. Kulichenko
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Federal Government Health Institution, Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute “Microbe” 2019-07-01
• Series: Проблемы особо опасных инфекций
• Subjects: epizootiological monitoring; natural focal infections; nosological form; markers of pathogens; constituent entities of the south of russia
• Online Access: https://journal.microbe.ru/jour/article/view/1147

Objective – analysis of epizootiological manifestations of natural focal infections in the territory of the south of the European part of the Russian Federation in 2017.Materials and methods. Statistical documentation data from the Rospotrebnadzor Administrations, Centers of Hygiene and Epidemiology in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and Plague Control Research Institutes and Stations were used. The information was processed using Microsoft Excel 2010 software.Results and discussion. Epizootiological survey for 19 nosological forms of natural focal infections in the territory of the south of the European part of the Russian Federation was conducted. The total of 70155 samples of field material was tested; markers of 14 pathogens of natural focal infections were identified. The circulation of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus was revealed in 11 constituent entities, tularemia and Lyme borreliosis pathogens – in 8 entities, West Nile virus – in 7. Markers of leptospirosis, Q fever, human granulocytic anaplasmosis and human monocytic ehrlichiosis pathogens were detected in 6 constituent entities, markers of the agent of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome – in 5 entities; markers of intestinal yersiniosis pathogen – in 3 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, pathogens of tick spotted fevers group, tick-borne viral encephalitis and pseudotuberculosis – in 2. The circulation of the virus Sindbis was identified in the Rostov Region.