title: [Current state of epidemiologic surveillance of natural foci of plague of North Caucasus].
abstract: Information on the epizootic situation in plague in the natural foci of North Caucasus and on the influence of a number of anthropogenic and natural factors on this situation is presented. The data given in this work indicate that under the conditions of the anthropogenic transformation of landscapes the character of the epizootic manifestations of plague is changed and new factors, capable of aggravating epidemiological situation, appear. In addition, some other factors must be considered, such as the insufficient financing of reliable field surveys at present, the impossibility of making reliable epizootological studies due to causes of the social character (armed conflicts), thus making it impossible to evaluate, with a sufficient degree of reliability, the real epizootic state of a number of territories and, therefore, the risk of human infection. In this connection the necessity to carefully plan prophylactic measures and measures aimed at the localization and liquidation of the probable foci of infection arises.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Plague Control, Stavropol.
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Efremenko
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Briukhanova
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Grizhebovskiĭ
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Beĭer
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Chumakova
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Mezentsev
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Grigor'ev
authors.forename: Iu M
authors.initials: IuM
authors.lastname: Evchenko
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Asvarov
authors.forename: O G
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Shvets
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Kazakov
authors.forename: E I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Belogrudova
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Mozloev
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Zharinova
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Tsareva
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Malaĭ
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Gruba
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Ermolova
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004199:Disease Vectors; D017753:Ecosystem; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors; D010930:Plague / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D005423:Siphonaptera / Q000382:microbiology; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology