Toxocariasis: Current State of the Russian Federation Message 1: Risk of Toxocariasis Infection of the Population on the Territory of the Russian Federation

• Published in: Epidemiology and Vaccine Prevention
• Main Authors: O. Yu. Starostina, E. S. Berezina, S. N. Romanova
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Numikom LLC 2015
• Subjects: токсокароз; риск заражения токсокарами; тканевые гельминтозы; toxocariasis; the risk of toxocara infection; tissue parasitic infection; Epistemology. Theory of knowledge; BD143-237; Chukotka; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.31631/2073-3046-2015-14-2-13-18; https://doaj.org/article/82503b32239047a7854b861892073fce

Data of Federal Service on Customers’ Rights Protection and Human Well-Being Surveillance State reports for the administrative eareas in 2010 - 2012 on sanitary-epidemiological well being of the population were analyzed, as well as information from the published sources on the toxocara infestation of dogs and cats in the different regions of Russia and the results of their own research. Attention is drawn to fairly high toxocara infestation level of the domestic carnivores in almost all regions of Russia. Dogs infected in 30 - 60% (in some regions - in 100%) of cases. Infestation of cats is from 15 to 76% of individuals. Toxocara eggs detected in washouts with the green, with the hands of children, furniture and toys in kindergartens and schools, as well as on a fur of dogs. Soil is contaminated with toxocara eggs even in the areas with a short cool summer: Kamchatka region, Chukotka autonomous area. It is concluded that the risk of toxocara human infection exists at present throughout the Russian Federation, regardless of weather conditions. This peril is associated with the generally infected of dogs, contamination toxocara eggs of objects of environment, the development of technologies for cultivation of vegetable crops in greenhouses, where conditions are favorable for the development of geohelminthes eggs.