State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance Center in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakutsk City Ñlinical Hospital
The clinico-epidemiological characterization of tularemia morbidity in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) for the recent 45 years is presented. The detailed description of a case of tularemia in an adolescent bitten by a muskrat, occurring on the territory of Yakutsk in the pre-inundation year of 2001, is given. The importance of the realization of pla
ed and emergency antitularemia measures is emphasized. In the course of the prophylactic measures the immunization of the population living in the zone of the active natural foci of tularemia was carried out, control of the river flow was made, as well as notification on the hydrological conditions of landscapes and information on the epidemiological surveillance of quarantine and natural focal infections under the conditions of the Far North were presented.
Zh. Mikrobiol. (Moscow), 2003, No. 2, Supplement, P. 83—87