Follow-up performance of patients with cutaneous melanoma: recommendations for an effective strategy.

Objective: Aim: To investigate the incidence of progression and median time for metastasizing, the development of recurrent localization, and to identify localizations with a high tendency to recurrence of melanoma during 10 years of patient follow-up observation.

Patients And Methods: Materials and Methods: The retrospective data of dynamic observation by dermatovenereologists of SIS ≪CIHT≫ SAD of 183 patients with skin melanoma for the period 2014 - first half of 2024.

Results: Results: Among 183 cases of melanoma, 23 cases (12,6%) were detected in stage III and 11 cases (6,0%) in stage IV, so the neglect rate was 18,6%.

[The etiological structure of acute respiratory infectious morbidity based on the data from a rapid diagnosis in Minsk].

Examination of 60,792 residents of Minsk in different seasons of 1977-1989 by indirect immunofluorescence showed this method to be able of recoding not only mono- but also polyetiological epidemics. The epidemic threshold for influenza A is 15% of positive findings, for influenza B is 7-8%, for polyetiological epidemics (influenza A and B) is 15-16% and 9-10%, respectively. The criterion of the epidemic situation in the city is a twofold increase (or higher) in the level of influenza A and B virus antigen findings in rhinocytological preparations as compared with the previous week.

[The effect of socioeconomic and ecological conditions on tick-borne encephalitis morbidity in settled regions].

A relation between the tick-borne encephalitis morbidity, to the cattle-breeding methods and specific and quantitative structure of dairy cattle herds in developed regions is discussed. This relation is due to the fact that cows and goats are Ixodid hosts and donors of the virus. The factors like use of ameliorated pastures in cattle-breeding practice and cattle maintenance in the stalls deprive ticks of their hosts and donors of virus.