title: [Cryptosporidium oocysts and epidemic safety of drinking water in the Russian Federation].
abstract: The paper provides evidence that Cryptosporidium oocysts should be necessarily included as an index of the epidemic safety of drinking water in our country. This is evidenced by: the wide spread of cryptosporidiosis among animals and human beings; that of the pathogen of this disease in the environment; large-scale outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis in the world's population; no sanitary and parasitological drinking water monitoring in our country; the use of this parasitological index to evaluate drinking water quality in some countries (USA, UK, Ukraine, etc.).
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Romanenko
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Sergiev
authors.forename: Iu A
authors.initials: IuA
authors.lastname: Rakhmanin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003457:Cryptosporidiosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003458:Cryptosporidium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005618:Fresh Water / Q000469:parasitology*; D006801:Humans; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology