title: [Anthropurgic foci of pseudotuberculosis and the mechanisms of their formation in groups of servicemen].
abstract: At the period of 1982 - 2003, morbidity rate in pseudotuberculosis and the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis culture rates in groups of servicemen (from different abiotic objects, from humans and small rodents) in different geographic zones were studied. The cases of the isolation of Y. pseudotuberculosis were most frequently registered in groups of servicemen in the Far East and the Kola Peninsula. In these regions the highest morbidity rate in pseudotuberculosis was registered among servicemen. The contamination rate of vegetables during the year was always greater than in other objects under study, including small rodents. The study demonstrated that in the Armed Forces could appear, temporary and relatively constant anthropurgic foci of pseudotuberculosis even in non endemic regions. They were formed in the objects of the food supply service due to the supply of contaminated vegetables. Synanthropic rodents played a secondary role, though they too facilitated the formation of new anthropurgic foci. Under definite conditions anthropurgic foci could exist autonomously, independently of natural foci.
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Makhnev
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000382:microbiology*; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel; D012377:Rodentia / Q000382:microbiology; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014675:Vegetables / Q000382:microbiology; D015011:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015012:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*