[Effect of sewage on the viability of Opisthorchis eggs].

Experiment with Opisthorchis ova demonstrated high ovicidal effect of sewage. Problems of the potential killing effect on opisthorchiasis causative agent's ova are discussed.

[Ecologo-epidemiologic characteristics of echinococcosis in the Irkutsk region].

Seroepidemiological screening of population of the Irkutsk region with regard to echinococciasis was preformed by RLA and RIHA. The last 26-year data on surgically confirmed echinococciasis cases were obtained at the local hospital. Relatively high invasion and disease rates were revealed in the forest-steppe natural areal complex population, the invasion agent circulating between dogs and sheep.