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A complex of organizingmethodical, medical preventive and antiepidemic measures both at the frontier passing points and on the whole Amurskaya Province prior to detection of a SARS case in Blagoveshchensk City and from the moment of the disease registration to prevent further dissemination of this infection is represented.

Antiepidemic measures in Blagoveshchensk City of Amurskaya Province were carried out among persons contacted with a patient suspected to «atypical pneumonia» (further diagnosis was confirmed by laboratory methods). Chinese citizens were isolated at the hotel (at the place of their residing); close relatives of the patient were accommodated in the isolation ward of the Regional infectious hospital. Russians were kept under observation at the place of their residing. The efficiency of the performed measures is marked.

The substantiating of SARS diagnosis in patients (Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region) is presented. The diagnosis was based on the results of clinical picture, epidemiological anamnesis and inquiry, and laboratory study of the patient’s blood and nasopharyngeal washes with the help of ELISA and PCR.