title: [State of the natural foci of tularemia in the eastern part of the Northern Caucasian region].
abstract: The short characterization of the territory, known to contain the natural foci of tularemia, in the eastern part of the foothill area of the Caucasus is presented. The Caspian plain-foothill focus and the Terek-Kuma focus were shown to be the most dangerous among these foci. The severe outbreak of tularemia took place in the Terek-Kuma focus in 1999. Local epizootic could be stopped here only after the appearance of patients with clinical manifestations of tularemia. The epizootological survey of the territory for tularemia in 3 natural foci of Daghestan and in the natural focus of the Caucasian foothill area is carried out in an insufficient volume due to the complicated socio-political situation in the Chechen Republic and the insufficient financial support of the work on the study of the foci.
authors.affiliation: Daghestan Station for Plague Control, Makhachkala, Russia.
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Asvarov
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Omarova
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: -M Gaziev
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Batyrova
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Gruba
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Khasaev
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004199:Disease Vectors; D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D018884:Ixodes; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012377:Rodentia / Q000254:growth & development / Q000469:parasitology; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014406:Tularemia / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014857:Warfare
vernacular_title: Sostoianie prirodnykh ochagov tuliaremii v vostochnoĭ chasti regiona Severnogo Kavkaza.