The theory of the etiological selectivity of the main (primary) routes of transmission and their inequality in different nosological forms of intestinal infections
Solodovnikov, I.P.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 5: 67-72
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 10852026 Document Number: 511286
The article deals with the main scientific propositions of an original epidemiological theory, viz. the theory of the etiological selectivity of the main (primary) routes of transmission and their differences in various nosological forms of enteric infections (the theory of conformity). As proved on the basis of scientific investigations carried out for the period of several years, the role of various routes forming the fecal-oral mechanism of transmission (alimentary, aqueous, household) is highly different. In some enteric infections one of these routes becomes the primary (main) route, while other routes are secondary (additional). The primary route determines the wide spread of the corresponding nosological forms of enteric infections (the theory of conformity) and the preservation of their causative agents in nature as species. The secondary routes are only complementary to the activity of the main route of transmission in some degree. In controlling enteric infections, the measures taken with a view to suppressing the activity of the primary route of transmission are, from the epidemiological standpoint in the close and remote prospects, the cardinal ones, while the measures directed against the secondary routes are only palliative.