title: [Why has malaria not been rooted in present-day Russia?].
abstract: At present, a favorable malaria situation that contributes to the elimination of local vivax malaria transmission has established in Russia by 2010 due to the following factors: 1) a considerable reduction in the number of imported cases ofvivax malaria from endemic CIS countries; 2) a low malariogenic potential of the territory of the Moscow region where the basic importation of malaria occurs; 3) a higher awareness about the prevention of malaria in the population; 4) medical workers' alertness and timely detection of patients with malaria; 5) failure for sporadic cases of vivax malaria to be rooted in the urban area due to episodic carriage of various pathogenic phenotypes.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Baranova
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D016780:Malaria, Vivax / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission*; D010966:Plasmodium vivax; D012307:Risk Factors; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology