EPIZOOTIOLOGICAL MONITORING IN TULAREMIA SURVEILLANCE

Tularemia is an infection relevant to the Russian Federation as before. The changes in the epizootic and epidemic process of tularemia necessitate better surveillance as a whole and epizootiological monitoring in particular. Objective. To generalize and systematize current ideas on epizootiological monitoring. Its main results are considered and the epizootiological situation on tularemia is assessed, by using a large industrial town as an example. Materials and methods. The materials of the study were data of a 20-year follow-up of the natural forest and meadow-field foci, objects, and open areas of the city of Ulyanovsk, which had been obtained during zooparasitological and serological studies. Results. The specific features of the epizootological situation on tularemia in the city of Ulyanovsk were revealed and the risk of its complication was shown. Conclusion. By evaluating the efficiency of tularemia monitoring, the authors proposed the ways of its improvement, which included the optimization of information collection, storage, processing, and analysis; the improvement of the quality of epizootiological diagnosis and prediction, as well as scientific normative methodical and resource provision. They also touched upon the issues of professional training of specialists, which assume particular importance under existing resource and other limitations.

epizootiological monitoring, surveillance, tularemia, feral nidal infections, situation prediction