Contemporary issues epidemiology of acute intestinal infections of viral etiology in the north-eastern region of Ukraine

• Main Authors: N. G. Malysh, N. D. Chemich, S. I. Doan, Yu. V. Khatynskaya, T. Yu. Kiry
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Journal Infectology 2014-09-01
• Series: Žurnal Infektologii
• Subjects: acute intestinal infection; morbidity; viruses
• Online Access: https://journal.niidi.ru/jofin/article/view/226

A retrospective epidemiological analysis of the incidence of acute intestinal infections in 2008–2012 in Sumy region. Indicators of the incidence ranged from 172,8 to 181,7 per 100 thousand of the population. Absolute growth of acute diarrheal infections was +5,2%. In 29,8% of the samples retrieved from the feces of children and 7.5% of adults with acute intestinal infections, viruses isolated. In the structure of the viral landscape dominated by rota-, adeno- and noroviruses. The results of studies on detection of virus in samples of faeces methods of analysis immunoassay, enzyme immunoassay analysis and polymerase chain reaction were not significantly different (p >0,05).