title: CHARACTERISTICS OF NATURAL FOCI OF TULAREMIA IN THE CRIMEA, THEIR POTENTIAL DANGER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EPIDEMIC PROCESS AND THE MAIN DIRECTIONS OF ITS PREVENTION
abstract: Geographical and climatic conditions of the Crimean peninsula, mammals of a particular ecosystem together with pathogens of the infection and a complex of their ectoparasites, contribute to the preservation of natural foci of tularemia and other natural focal infectious diseases on its territory. Epizootic activity of natural foci of tularemia has a welldefined periodicity and seasonality. Currently, natural foci of tularemia of the steppe type in the flat Crimea and forest type on the territory
journal: Marine Medicine