[Molecular epidemiological analysis of the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the Novosibirsk region].

The dynamics of the spread of individual subtypes of type 1 HIV (HIV-1), circulating in the Novosibirsk region during the epidemic rise of HIV infection was under study. The epidemic of HIV-1 in Novosibirsk has a pattern similar to that in Russia as a whole. At the initial stage of epidemics multiple sources of virus determine the heterogeneity of the isolated subtypes of HIV-1.

[Tick-borne relapsing fever morbidity in the western Pamirs].

Morbidity with tick-borne recurrent fever in the western Pamirs is compared with that of the 1930s. It reduced considerably though the disease is widespread in the Pandj valley. The majority of patients are earlier resistant local inhabitants.

[Cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis infection resulting from the importation of sandflies via transportation means].

78 cases of a rural skin leishmaniasis type registered in the Tadjik SSR over a 10-year period have been divided into 3 groups according to the nature of epidemiological chain: 1) imported infection, when the inhabitants of Tadjikistan were infected in the southern parts of the Uzbek and Turkmen SSR; 2) infection of patients in borderline regions caused by sandflies [correction of mosquitoes] carried from Afghanistan by dust storms and strong winds; 3) local infection as a result of exploration of new lands in deserted areas of southern Tadjikistan previously known for endemic foci. 6 other cases are described: one case (1983), when a woman, citizen of Dushanbe, was infected by sandflies [correction of mosquitoes] brought in a helicopter from Afghanistan and the other familial case, when 5 persons were infected by sandflies [correction of mosquitoes] brought in a car from a borderland to an Afghanistan area.