title: [Disinfectology as a subject of differentiation in hygiene science].
abstract: The paper provides a rationale for the need for developing the decontamination - actively health-promoting area of hygiene science and practice to neutralize (decontaminate) different pathogens just in the environment where they enter during its inadequate, ineffective, or quite impossible protection from contamination. As of now, there are no physical decontamination technologies or ineffective attempts to make harmless chemical pathogens in the environment; at the same time it is stated that there are scientifically grounded biological decontamination and disinfectology technologies to neutralize biological pathogens just in the environment and on its different objects. To solve these problems requires hygienic competence, particularly the substantiation of hygienic standards for disinfectants in the environment and the elaboration of hygienically safe regimens of their application. In this connection, disinfectology is the most hygienic branch of all antiepidemic ones of preventive medicine. The development of disinfectology as a fruitful alliance of hygiene and epidemiology allowed a system of governmental management and control of unspecific prophylaxis to be developed and introduced in Russia, which contributes to a reduction in or at least stabilization of the incidence of infectious diseases in the country.
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Shandala
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D004203:Disinfection / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D052918:Environmental Restoration and Remediation / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D006920:Hygiene