[XENOMONITORING OF THE DIROFILARIASIS IN THE SOUTH AND NORTH-WEST OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION].

Xenomonitoring (detection of filarial larvae in mosquitoes) of vectors of dirofilariasis was performed in 2009—2013 in vectors collected in southern and northwestern regions of the Russian Federation. In Rostov, Astrakhan, Krasnodar, and Novgorod Provinces and in the Republic of Adygea the degree of infestation of mosquito larvae with Dirofilaria constituted 1.8 ± 0.

Dirofilaria repens in the Russian Federation: current epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment from a federal reference center perspective.

Background: Dirofilariasis is an emerging zoonotic infection in which the human serves as an accidental host. Russia has been one of the most important endemic regions worldwide for Dirofilaria repens, the most prevalent Dirofilaria species in Europe.

Methods: Based on a cohort of patients at the Rostov Medical University, we provide an epidemiological description of 236 human cases, reporting common clinical symptoms and treatment options for D.

[Dirofilariasis in the Nizhny Novgorod Region].

The paper presents the results of clinical, epidemiological, and epizootological analyses of local cases of human dirofilariasis in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, which suggest that natural and climatic changes, namely the abnormally hot summer in 2010-2011 and increasing migratory processes among human beings and animals, open up possibilities for forming foci ofdirofilariasis outside habitats of Dirofilaria repens.

[The specific features of the epidemiology and epizootology of dirofilariasis in Rostov-on-Don and the Rostov region].

In the Rostov Region, there have been stable foci of dirofilariasis for a long time (since the 1990s). Two helminth species (Dirofilaria repens, D. immitis) parasitize in definitive hosts.