ANALYSIS OF TULAREMIA MORBIDITY IN ARKHANGELSK REGION

Abstract

An epidemiological analysis of the recorded tularemia cases in the Arkhangelsk region was conducted. Some features of natural tularemia foci manifestations at the present time were revealed. For the first time clinical-epidemiological analysis and laboratory findings revealed patients infected with two natural focal infections (tularemia, leptospirosis) that indicated the presence of combined natural foci of these infections in the Arkhangelsk region. Since the mass immunization against tularemia in the USSR (from the middle of the last century to the present days) the most effective preventive measure against tularemia is human vaccination with a live tularemia vaccine.