Publications by authors named "O D Zakharova"

Background: This research aims to assess the level of awareness and readiness for the utilization of Electronic Prescription System (EPS) among medical professionals and patients, as well as to identify their opinions regarding the advantages and disadvantages of this system.

Methods: The study was conducted in Russia among 423 respondents, including medical professionals and patients, with an average age of 40 years.

Results: The awareness of EPS among medical professionals (20%) and patients (45.

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  • Animal rabies is a serious viral disease affecting both wild and domestic animals, with significant risks to health and safety, particularly highlighted by the role of red foxes in spreading the virus in Nizhny Novgorod from 2012-2022.
  • Researchers utilized spatiotemporal cluster analysis and negative binomial regression to analyze the impact of environmental and sociodemographic factors on rabies cases across municipalities.
  • Findings indicated that areas with high fox populations and low vaccination rates had increased wild animal rabies cases, suggesting the need for strategic vaccination campaigns based on population density dynamics.
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The removal of pollutants, including heavy metals, from the aquatic environment is an urgent problem worldwide. Actively developing nanotechnology areas is becoming increasingly important for solving problems in the field of the remediation of aquatic ecosystems. In particular, methods for removing pollutants using nanoparticles (NPs) are proposed, which raises the question of the effect of a combination of NPs and heavy metals on living organisms.

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African swine fever (ASF) is an infectious disease that affects both domestic pigs (DPs) and wild boar (WB). The WB population plays an important role in the spread of ASF as the WB acts as a natural reservoir of the virus and transmits it to other susceptible wild and domestic pigs. Our study was aimed at revealing the areas with a high concentration of the WB population, and their potential relationships with the grouping of ASF cases in WB during the course of the ASF spread in the Russian Federation (2007-2022).

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Application of new materials and methods in the diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases is one of the promising research areas in modern ophthalmology. Significant progress has been made in understanding the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases using nanotechnologies and nanomaterials. This paper presents the main achievements and results of original research on this issue.

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