The 90th anniversary of the Department of Communicable Diseases, Kazan State Medical University, the alma mater of Kazan School of Infectologists

The paper is devoted to the 90th anniversary of the Department of Communicable Diseases, Kazan State Medical University that is the founder of the Kazan School of Infectologists. Professor B.A. Volter, a postgraduate of the Saint Petersburg Imperial Military Medical Academy, was the first organizer and leader of the Department. He laid the groundwork for a pathogenetic research area of the Department. Since the earliest days of its existence, all researchers have been actively involved in controlling louse-borne typhus, typhoid and relapsing fevers, dysentery, malaria, and other infections. In the 1970s and 1980s, much work was done on developing pathogenetic therapy for meningococcal infection, influenza, and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in the Middle Volga Region, as well as intensive therapy for infectious toxic shock. The present-day activities of the Department are associated with researches in the pathogenesis of viral hepatitis and HIV infection and with development of their antiviral therapy options. The Department plays a great role in the education of healthcare professionals and in the postgraduate training of primary health care physicians in the topical issues of infectious diseases. Professor B.A. Volter’s successors cherish and continue to develop the best traditions of the Kazan school of Infectologists.

infectious diseases, education, science, Department of Communicable Diseases, Kazan School of Infectologists