Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Irkutsk Research Institute for Plague Control, State Sanitary and Epidemiological Ñenter in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
The rapid rise of morbidity in acute enteric infections in the presence of sporadic morbidity during the whole preceding period, the territorial correlation of morbidity with the location of camps having unsatisfactory water supply, the predominant involvement of workers employed in the construction gangs into the epidemic process, the clinical course of the disease, the isolation of Shigella flexneri 2a and opportunistic enterobacteria from patients, the supply of drinking water not meeting sanitary requirements and a drop in the level of morbidity after the chlorination of water showed that the water factor was of prime importance in the transmission of infection. A number of intensive complex measures taken in co
ection with this situation prevented the growth of morbidity in acute enteric infections.
Zh. Mikrobiol. (Moscow), 2003, No. 2, Supplement, P. 66—72