[Impact of effect of natural disasters on the circulation of causative agents of parasitic diseases].

The southern region is marked by a high incidence of parasitic diseases and a significant contamination of environmental objects with the eggs and cysts of their pathogens. Background examinations revealed the greatest soil contamination with helminthic eggs in the Temryuksky District of the Krasnodar Territory and in the towns of Vladikavkaz and Digora of the Republic of North Ossetia (Alania). The least contamination was found in Rostov-on-Don and the towns of the south-western area of the Krasnodar Territory.

[Dirofilariasis in the countries of the CIS: an analysis of the cases over the years 1915-1996].

A hundred and fourteen cases of subcutaneous dirofilariasis caused by Dirofilaria repens were described in the CIS in 1915-1996. The mean age of the patients was 38.4 years (from 3 to 70 years).