[FEATURES OF THE ORGANIZATION OF SANITARY-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE DURING THE PERIOD OF PREPARATION AND HOSTING OF THE XXII OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES AND XI PARALYMPIC WINTER GAMES IN THE RESORT CITY OF SOCHI IN 2014].

In the paper there are presented the basic principles of the organization of activities for the assurance ofthe sanitary- epidemiological welfare in the period ofpreparation and hosting of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in the Resort City of Sochi. There are considered features of the organization ofepidemiological surveillance in the pre-Olympic period, the period of the games and the state of the morbidity rate in the region after the Olympics. There are presented data on certain directions of the work of organs and institutions of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare on the disease control of the event.

[Gene typing of infectious tularemia strains isolated from the Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories]. / Genotipirovanie shtammov vozbutelia tuliaremii, vydelennykh na territoriiakh Stavropol'skogo i Krasnodarskogo Kraev.

The typing of F. tularensis strains by four variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) loci has been carried out. Among the strains isolated in the Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories seven genotypes have been detected and their spread in different natural foci has been analyzed. The data thus obtained suggest that the VNTR analysis may become an important instrument for studying the structure of the natural foci of tularemia and evolutionary relationships between individual areas of these foci.

[Current state of epidemiologic surveillance of natural foci of plague of North Caucasus]. / Sovremennoe sostoianie épidemiologicheskogo nadzora v prirodnykh ochagakh chumy Severnogo Kavkaza.

Information on the epizootic situation in plague in the natural foci of North Caucasus and on the influence of a number of anthropogenic and natural factors on this situation is presented. The data given in this work indicate that under the conditions of the anthropogenic transformation of landscapes the character of the epizootic manifestations of plague is changed and new factors, capable of aggravating epidemiological situation, appear. In addition, some other factors must be considered, such as the insufficient financing of reliable field surveys at present, the impossibility of making reliable epizootological studies due to causes of the social character (armed conflicts), thus making it impossible to evaluate, with a sufficient degree of reliability, the real epizootic state of a number of territories and, therefore, the risk of human infection. In this connection the necessity to carefully plan prophylactic measures and measures aimed at the localization and liquidation of the probable foci of infection arises.

[Working experience of the analytical group of the specialized epidemic brigade]. / Opyt raboty analiticheskoi gruppy spetsializirovannoi protivoépidemicheskoi brigady.

The working experience of the analytical group as the section of the specialized antiepidemic brigade for the organization and realization of antiepidemic measures, made under the conditions of the antiterrorist operation in the Chechen Republic in the year 2000, is generalized. The necessity for equipping the specialized brigade with a modern computer with peripherals and the necessary specialized computer programs, as well as with modem and fax-telephone facilities, is shown. The necessity of equipping this brigade with the electronic variant of the information and legal data base (references on methods, sanitary norms and other normative documents on sanitation, hygiene, epidemiology, bacteriology and the organization of health service) is indicated.