Abstract
The results of ten-year observations of the natural foci of leptospirosis on the territory of Moscow are presented. Information on the foci, the main species of small mammals (the reservours of the infection), the etiological structure of leptospires, circulating among rodents and insectivores, is given.
MeSH terms
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Animals
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Antibodies, Bacterial / blood*
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Disease Reservoirs* / microbiology
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Ecosystem
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Environmental Monitoring*
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Epidemiological Monitoring
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Eulipotyphla / microbiology
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Leptospira / classification
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Leptospira / immunology*
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Leptospirosis / prevention & control*
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Rodentia / classification
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Rodentia / microbiology
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Russia / epidemiology
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Seroepidemiologic Studies
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Species Specificity
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Urban Population