Assessment of Epizootiological-Epidemiological Situation on Natural Focal Infections in Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalin Territory of the Sakhalin Region

• Published in: Problems of Particularly Dangerous Infections
• Main Authors: E. I. Andaev, M. V. Chesnokova, T. I. Borisova, E. A. Vershinin, S. A. Tatarnikov, N. V. Breneva, A. V. Mazepa, R. V. Adel’Shin, S. E. Khudchenko, E. A. Sidorova, O. V. Mel’Nikova, Yu. N. Trushina, V. T. Klimov, B. B. Darizhapov, T. K. Tin, N. I. Legeida, E. A. Im En Ok
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Federal Government Health Institution, Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute “Microbe” 2014
• Subjects: сахалин; природно-очаговые инфекции; заболеваемость; лептоспирозы; туляремия; клещевой энцефалит; лихорадка западного нила; хантавирусы; инфекции; передающиеся иксодовыми клещами; лабораторная диагностика; sakhalin; natural-focal infections; morbidity; leptospiroses; tularemia; tick-borne encephalitis; west nile fever; hantaviruses; ixodidae tick-borne infections; laboratory diagnostics; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Sakhalin; taiga
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.21055/0370-1069-2014-3-11-15; https://doaj.org/article/1d226fddced54113bfe886aa5464bd12

Objective of the work was to carry out complex assessment of the current state of epizootic activity and epidemiological significance of the infectious disease natural foci in the Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalin territory of the Sakhalin Region. Trapped were 56 samples of small mammals in July, 2010; collected were 180 specimens of taiga tick imago, caught were 1000 specimens of mosquitoes. 223 samples of blood sera were taken from residents of the region. All the field data were tested to detect specific antibodies, antigens and genetic material of agents. Based on the results of epizootiological investigations, serological and molecular-genetic assays, demonstrated was the occurence of natural foci of leptospirosis, tularemia, tick-borne encephalitis, borreliosis, rickettsiosis, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, human monocytic ehrlichiosis, West Nile fever, Inco fever, Batai and Geto fevers, as well as HFRS with varying degree of activity manifestation in the territory of the region. Isolated was tick-borne encephalitis virus from mosquitoes.