[The epidemiological characteristics of brucellosis in the region of the northern Caucasus].

At present, the Northern Caucus Region is the most unfavourable brucellosis area of the Russian Federation where 43.5% of the total Russian incidence of this infection was recorded in 1993. Over the past years (1988-1993) there was a highly unsteady-state improvement of the epidemiological situation, however, the rates of human morbidity with this infection greatly lag behind those in Russia.