Modern conceptions about epidemiology of acute water-borne intestinal infections
This review aimed to summarize the modern conceptions regarding epidemiological manifestations of acute water-borne intestinal infections, such as bacterial dysentery, typhoid fever, cholera, rotaviral infection, viral hepatitis A and enteroviral infections. All these infections were characterized by common features, such as high contagiousness in the presence of etiological agent, predominant affection of children, presence of latent component in epidemiological process leading to preservation of causative agent, epidemiological well-being dependence on quality of water supply water disposal, probability of transboundary spreading of infection with subsequent development of outbreak. The significance of acute water-borne intestinal infections in the development of infectious outbreaks significantly increases during liquidation of emergencies, when the risk of infection of affected population is significantly high.