V.I. Pokrovsky, G.G. Onishchenko, B.L. Cherkassky. Evolution of Infectious Diseases in Russia in the 20th Century. Guidance for Doctors. Moscow, Medicine, 2003, 664 p.

The team of authors includes leading specialists of N.F. Gamaleya Institute for Epidemiology & Microbiology V.A. Akovbyan, Y.V. Ananyina, E.I. Korenberg, N.N. Kostyukova, I.S. Meshcheryakova, T.I. Sergeyeva, and I.V. Tarasevich.
The guidance provides data on epidemiology of infectious diseases in the pre-revolutionary period, during the Civil War and the post-war devastation, before and after the Great Patriotic War and in later years. The key milestones of establishment and development of the Russian epidemiology and the system of anti-epidemic practice. Estimation of the prospects of fighting infectious and parasitic diseases and their prevention at the beginning of the 21st century is of special interest.

The book is intended for epidemiologists, microbiologists, virologists, parasitologists, infectious disease doctors, health officials and the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service.

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