[The history of the elimination of guinea worm infection in Uzbekistan]. / Istoriia likvidatsii rishty v Uzbekistane.

Dracunculiasis was mainly spread in Bukhara. Control was made in two directions: 1) timely detection of patients, their registration, treatment and parasitic decontamination; 2) elimination of Dracunculus larvae-infected Cyclops in the water reservoirs. The prevalence of the disease is as high as 20% and a total of 1116 patients were identified. Only one patient was notified in 1931. In 1932, foci of Dracunculus stopped its existence in Old Bukhara and 56 neighboring inhabited areas.

[The organization of the control of taeniarhynchiasis in Bukhara Province]. / Organizatsiia bor.by s teniarinkhozom v Bukharskoi oblasti.

The Bukhara Province occupies the third place after the Khorezm Province and Karakalpakstan in the incidence of taeniarhynchiasis. In 1993, the Republic notifies 2608 (0.05%) patients with taeniarhynchiasis, including 215 (0.06%) patients in the Bukhara Province. Sanitation measures resulted in reduced incidence of the disease by 4.8 times in the region and by over 50 times (to 0.05%) in the Romitan District. The morbidity rate of the population tends to be stable.