Country Highlights give an overview of the health and health-related situation in a given country and compare, where possible, its position in relation with other countries in the region. The Highlights have been developed in collaboration with Member States for operational purposes and do not constitute a formal statistical publication. They are based on information provided by Member States a...

The scientific problems of the assessing of the impact of environmental factors on human health and the explanation of health-improving activities today are the priorities of state environmental policy in all developed countries. Environment and human health are the actual problems, which currently have the attention of the Republic of Kazakhstan. One of the crisis regions of Kazakhstan is reco...

Serum samples from all patients with culture-confirmed brucellosis including those with chronic disease from Kazakhstan tested positive in the serum agglutination test for titers > or = 1:25 and reacted in the Brucella immunoglobulin M/immunoglobulin G lateral flow assay (LFA) confirming the high sensitivity of these assays. The strong reactivity in the LFA observed for the majority (92.1%) of ...

G o l d i n (1963) found in Kazakhstan an interesting strain of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). B r e a k (1978) established that this Kazakhstan strain (Ka strain) of TMV was defective and that it infected tobacco plants very slowly or the systemic infection was lacking. Its thermal inactivation point lay between 75 and 80° C. In fresh infective sap virus particles of normal length were found very...

Introduction In order to transition the forecasting, estimation and management of epidemic risks to individual administrative areas, the Agency for Consumer Rights Protection of Kazakhstan has developed a concept for modernizing the existing national system of the epidemiological surveillance (SES). It is proposed that the data from the SES (epidemiology, sanitary and epidemiological background...

background: external causes of death are still among the main causes of death in the countries of the former soviet :union:. we studied epidemiology of injuries among elderly in a typical kazakhstani city. methods: data on all injuries among individuals aged 60 yr or older in the city of semey (former semipalatinsk) from 2010 to 2012 was collected from medical files. we present absolute numbers...

background cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common form of leishmaniasis caused by flagellate protozoa of the genus leishmania transmitted by sand fly bites. old world leishmaniasis is endemic in the mediterranean sea and the neighbouring countries. we believe, that this case is interesting by the fact that we had a very rear disease case that can be observed in nonendemic area. we present a...

We illustrate some of the challenges and potential benefits of modelling parasite population dynamics in a spatially explicit manner, using the example of Echinococcus multilocularis in semi-arid areas of Kazakhstan. We show that by taking a parasite-focussed approach to modelling population dynamics, rather than the usual host-focussed approach, we gain new insights into the complex factors th...

The epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori infection and risk factors associated with its transmission are not well understood. Kazakhstan is country with two ethnic groups, Asian (Kazakhs) and Western (Russians), living under similar socioeconomic conditions. The aim of this study was to examine the seroepidemiologic pattern of H. pylori and hepatitis A among the same individuals from both ethnic...

Two new species of Pseudohadena, Pseudohadena anatinesp. n. and Pseudohadena gorbunovisp. n. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) are described from Ustyurt, Kazakhstan. Illustrations of adults and the genitalia of both sexes are provided. Microstructures of vesicae are described and illustrated. A diagnostic comparison is made with Pseudohadena evanida psammoxantha Ronkay, Varga & Fábián, 1995, Pseudohade...