[The infectivity of the population with the tapeworm Diphyllobothrium klebanovskii in an area of infection drift in the Khabarovsk Territory].

Copro-ovoscopic survey of the human population in the Khabarovsk Territory and the analysis of data of account of territorial sanitary epidemiological station showed that people invaded with D. klebanovskii are registered only in areas whose rivers catadromous salmon come to spawn. Most of invaded people are recorded on the seashore. The risk of tapeworm invasion and the epidemiological characteristics of the carry-over zone are discussed.