Formation of a system of comprehensive monitoring of tularemia on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic in order to manage the epidemic process


DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18565/epidem.2024.14.1.62-70

Trunova O.A., Skripka L.V.

1) M. Gorky Donetsk State Medical University,  Ministry of Health of  Russia Donetsk, Russia; 2) Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being, Donetsk, Russia
Objective. Determination of criteria for epidemic well-being and precursors of epidemic ill-being to improve the system of comprehensive monitoring of tularemia infection in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
Materials and methods. Data on the incidence of tularemia (T) from statistical reports of the Donetsk Regional Sanitary and Epidemiological Station for 1991–2014, the Republican Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of the Ministry of Health of the DPR (2015–2022), industry reports on the results of epizootic monitoring for tularemia were used. Zoological-parasitological, bacteriological and serological research methods were used to characterize the epizootic situation in the outbreaks.
Results. The identified features of the tularemia epidemic process on the territory of the Donetsk region were used to substantiate the system of diagnostic and prognostic criteria for the epidemic process and the main provisions for optimizing the surveillance of this infection.
Conclusion. New approaches to the structure of the information subsystem for epidemiological surveillance of tularemia and specific measures for infection monitoring, based on the specifics and principles of a systematic approach to the tularemia epidemic process have been proposed.

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About the Autors


Professor Olha A. Trunova, МD, Professor, Department of Organization of Higher Education, Health Management and Epidemiology, M. Gorky Donetsk State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia, Donetsk, Russia; olgatrunov@yandex.ru; http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0125-1349.
Liliya V. Skrypka, Deputy Chief Physician for Antiepidemic Issues, Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being, Donetsk, Russia; skripka.lili@mail.ru; http://orcid.org/0009-0005-1177-9245


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