Toxocariasis in the Republic of Altai. Geoinformation mapping simulation
Pautova, E.A.; Kurepina, N.I.; Dovgalev, A.S.
Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 4: 11-14
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326 PMID: 23437715 Document Number: 662174
Toxocariasis is one of the most important zooanthroponotic natural-focal parasitic diseases in the Republic of Altai. The prevalence of their invasion among the inhabitants of the Republic has increased by more than 7 times. The data of the authors' observations ofToxocara infection in animals (cats, dogs), soil contamination with helminth eggs, and prevalence of human toxocariasis in the Republic of Altai, by considering the results of tests for antibodies against its pathogen in the inhabitants of the region, were automatically processed using geoinformation mapping simulation, which yielded a mapping model to rank the region's area by morbidity rates. The use of up-to-date computers and geo information systems makes it possible to systematize information on this invasion and to see major foci of the disease to reveal the reasons for their assignment to the specific type of the region's landscape.