ABSTRACT
The epidemic process of cholera in a mental-hospital setting is to a great extent influenced by specific factors. In view of a danger of cholera being brought into a mental in-patient facility the authors insist, based on their own experience, that in summer and autumn seasons in South regions and urban settlements with unstable, in respect of cholera, epidemic situation, not only patients with intestinal disfunction be examined for cholera but all those individuals to be managed at above facility. It is all-important for a mental hospital to have a plan at their disposal of primary antiepidemic measures to be instituted in case dangerous infections will pose too difficult a problem to deal with, with pharmacy being envisaged, provided with all the stores required.
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Cholera/prevention & control , Cross Infection/prevention & control , Disease Reservoirs , Hospitals, Psychiatric , Disease Outbreaks/prevention & control , Female , Hospital Bed Capacity, under 100 , Humans , Male , Patient Isolation/methods , UkraineSubject(s)
Yersinia Infections/microbiology , Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infections/microbiology , Animals , Antibodies, Bacterial/analysis , Disease Reservoirs , Feces/microbiology , Food Microbiology , Fruit , Humans , Rodentia/microbiology , Ukraine , Vegetables , Yersinia Infections/immunology , Yersinia enterocolitica/immunology , Yersinia enterocolitica/isolation & purification , Yersinia pseudotuberculosis/immunology , Yersinia pseudotuberculosis/isolation & purification , Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infections/immunologyABSTRACT
The epidemiological and clinical features of alimentary toxinfections caused by halophilic vibrios on the Crimean coast of the Sea of Azov at the period of 1976-1984 were studied. Toxinfections were linked mainly with the use of sea-food subjected to different kinds of culinary treatment and took the course of gastroenteritis. To prevent toxinfections caused by halophilic vibrios, the technology, as well as sanitary and hygienic norms, should be strictly observed in the production of sea-food; besides, special methods of bacteriological diagnosis should be introduced into practice at laboratories of medical institutions and fish-processing plants.
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Foodborne Diseases/epidemiology , Seawater , Vibrio Infections/epidemiology , Water Microbiology , Animals , Diarrhea/epidemiology , Diarrhea/microbiology , Fish Products , Fisheries , Fishes , Food Microbiology , Foodborne Diseases/microbiology , Humans , Russia , Vibrio/isolation & purification , Vibrio Infections/microbiologyABSTRACT
Both biotypes of halophilous vibrios, V. parahaemolyticus and V. alginolyticus, have been found to cause intestinal diseases among the inhabitants of the littoral localities of the Crimea. These diseases mostly assume the form of acute gastroenteritis and alimentary toxic infections. Most frequently people contact infection by using sea food. It is suggested that the etiological unraveling of intestinal infections may be improved by introducing the method for the isolation of halophilous vibrios into laboratory practice.
