ИСТИНА

For the purpose of malaria elimination and effective control it is important to distinguish landscapes that are most favorable for malaria transmission. To reach this goal the landscape malariological stratification of Southern Uzbekistan was made. For the malariological stratification of Southern Uzbekistan the method of A. Lysenko et al. (1956) was used. The method is based on the identifying of specific types of malarious landscapes with subsequent stratification. As the basis of this stratification the existing physiographic and landscape division were used. A malariological interpretation was given to each strata, that allowed to make a landscape typology in respect of malaria. Five types of landscapes were selected: irrigated, plain-riverine, low-mountain, mid-mountain-riverine, and malaria-free. The plain-riverine and irrigated landscapes are the most favorable for spreading and transmission of malaria. These landscapes had the largest area of anophelogenous water bodies of natural and anthropogenic genesis. The situation in irrigated и low-mountain landscapes depends on the situation in plain-riverine landscapes. In mid-mountain-riverine type of landscapes the independent malaria foci can evolve. This stratification may play as a tool for improving malaria control to prevent autochthonous transmission.