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Natural focality of infections: Current problems and prospects of research

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Consideration is given to basic concepts of natural focality that remain debatable (natural focus, epizootic and epidemic processes) and to the most relevant problems that largely determine the pathways of further research in this field, such as application of molecular biological methods to the study of natural foci, modes and forms of pathogen existence at the reservation phase, ways of emergence of “new” diseases with natural focality, and current strategy in disease prevention.

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Original Russian Text © E.I. Korenberg, 2010, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2010, No. 1, pp. 5–17.

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Korenberg, E.I. Natural focality of infections: Current problems and prospects of research. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 37, 665–676 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359010070010

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