[Malaria situation in the Moscow Region].

The Moscow Region is the largest administrative territorial entity that comprises 39 districts, 72 towns, 110 urban settlements, and above 6,000 inhabited localities. This is the most populated region of Russia with the average density of 334.5 persons per square kilometers, which is almost 40 times greater than that of the whole country's population.

[Improvement of a complex of sanitary and health-promoting measures in enterobiasis for children of pediatric institutions and schools].

The use of an improved complex of sanitary and health-promoting measures for children from 2 schools revealed that their infestation with pinworms among first-eleventh-form pupils from a boarding school was 42.6%, the above measures covering simultaneously them all with their subsequent repetition every 6 months allowed all the children to be free from pinworms. At school 8, the random use of these measures could reduce pinworm infestation to 4% of the children covered with health-promoting measures.

[New approaches to the eradication of enterobiasis in children].

The paper outlines the results of studies dealt with the detection of risk factors and groups for enterobiasis, the efficiency of the treatment of children suffering from the disease with medamine, biologicals, and Normase. It is shown that risk factors may include an abnormal course of antenatality, minor developmental malformations (diastema, dystrophy, abnormalities of the eye, hand, foot, etc.), as well as early artificial feeding of babies (before they reach 3 months of life).