CASES OF ASCARIASIS IN THE KRASNODAR REGION IN THE PERIOD FROM 2015 TO 2019

Abstract

To identify the epidemiological situation in the Krasnodar region, the following activities were carried out: a) analysis of statistical data kindly provided to us by the Office of the Federal state statistics Service for the Krasnodar region in the last five years (2015–2019); b) analysis of the results of coprological studies of faecal smears; as well as the results of blood serum tests for serological diagnostics of children and adults, conducted in the laboratories of the GBUZ regional hospital No. 2 and KBUZ Research Institute – Regional clinical hospital No. 1, as well as in the laboratory of the emergency care hospital of Krasnodar city. Based on our research, we identified two categories of the population, of different age groups, most susceptible to the disease ascariasis. The first group is children 7–16 years old, students of Junior and senior classes of city schools and the second group is adults – from 18 years and older, students of colleges, technical schools, and working people. In the first group, the peak of infestation of children with ascariasis occurred in 2018, it reached 23.1% per 100,000 people surveyed. In 2019, it was lower than 22.8%, but still quite large. In the second group, the rise of the disease occurred in 2016, it amounted to 17.5%, in subsequent years, the decline of ascariasis is noticeable.