EСOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE EXISTENCE OF TOXOCARIASIS IN KYIV
Toxocaral invasion remains an urgent problem in modern ecology, since its spread is not only the cause of the toxocariasis development as a parasitic disease of animals and people, but also contamination of Toxocara canis pathogen with environmental objects, in particular, in urbanized areas. The use of modern forecasting methods allows to simulate the situation concerning number of toxocariasis cases in the future, taking into account historical information and statistical processing of the results. Toxocariasis is anthropozoonosis with complex polymorphosis of clinical manifestations that complicates its diagnosis and treatment procedure. The results of our studies indicate a real and predictable increase in the number of toxocariasis cases in humans, the main cause of which is the low sanitary and hygienic culture of the population and its awareness of the biological pollution issue. Taking into account the growth of population in the conditions of cities, and, consequently, the number of domestic predators, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive ecological monitoring of the environment, since the objects of the natural environment are the determining environment in the development cycle of Toxocara. The habitat is a second tier environment and, with favorable abiotic factors, nematode eggs reach the invasive stage, at the same time migrating to the human or animal organism.