[Plague in Rostov Province (its history, epidemiology, epizootiology, control measures and prevention)]. / Chuma v Rostovskoi oblasti (istoriia, épidemiologiia, épizootologiia, mery bor'by i profilaktiki).

In the first third of the twentieth century, the overgrazing of cattle in the eastern districts of the modern Rostov Province yielded deserts in the places of virgin steppes and created favourable conditions for the enlargement of an area for the small souslik, a main carrier of plague in the natural focus of the northwestern Caspian Sea Region. On the above territories, this gave rise to a new natural focus of plague. Its liquidation required many-year goal-oriented efforts of large collective bodies of plaguologists and great material costs. The settlements of small sousliks exist on the above territories today and the activation of a natural focus of plague in the adjacent Kalmykia generate a need for enhancing plague epidemiological surveillance in the eastern districts of the Rostov Province today.

[Halophilic vibrios isolated from the Sea of Azov]. / Galofil'nye vibriony, vydelennye iz Azovskogo moria.

Halophilic vibrios (V. parahaemolyticus and V. alginolyticus) were for the first time isolated from the Azov sea in the Eisk district. These vibrios proved to be typical representatives of Vibrio genus and were distinctly differentiated by species according to the following signs: saccharose splitting, growth in peptone water with 10% NaCl solution, and acetylmethylcarbinol production. Swarming capacity on 1.5% agar with 3% NaCl proved to be a more variable sign. All the cultures isolated were typed by means of Japanese O- and K-sera and had the following antigenic formulae: O1:K32; O2:K28; O3:K57; O5:K17; O6:K18. Only in 3 cases it was impossible to determine completely the antigenic formula of vibrios referred by the O-antigen type +o the 7th and 11th groups. Thus, parahemolytic vibrios isolated from the Azov sea were referred to the serological types revealed in Japan in the sea water, hydrobionts and feces of patients with acute gastrointestinal diseases.