EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS of OUTBREAKS of ACUTE INTESTINAL INFECTIONS IN BASHKORTOSTAN IN 2007-2011

Abstract

The article presents data about epidemiological characteristics of outbreaks of acute intestinal infections in Bashkortostan for the five-year period, which were obtained in the course of analysis of annual reporting forms # 23 "Information of outbreaks of infectious diseases". Last few years the increasing number of outbreaks of acute intestinal infections and growing quantity of afflicted population are discovered, which is distinctly manifested in outbreaks, registered in organized groups of children and accompanied by steady spreading of pathogens spectrum (with prevalence of Salmonella), mainly transmitted (in 60-100 %) by food. The article also brings up the issue of the necessity of taking into account the identified characteristics of formation and manifestation of outbreaks of acute intestinal infections during the implementation of the system of epidemiological surveillance at regional and municipal levels, with optimization of all its components.

Keywords

• acute intestinal infections
• outbreaks
• incidence
• etiology
• the ways of transmission
• affected population
• epidemiological surveillance