[Clinico-immunological study of the effectiveness of vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis in the Maritime Territory].

Analysis of the severity of the clinical course of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in the Maritime Territory, 1966-1983, showed a decline in the incidence of the disease by 20% in the group of subjects vaccinated against TBE, whereas the severity of the disease showed no statistically significant difference from that among nonvaccinated subjects. The causes of the poor protective effect of the liquid tissue culture vaccine produced by the Research Institute of Vaccines and Sera, Ministry of Health of the USSR, Tomsk, were demonstrated alongside with the advantages of the lyophilized concentrated vaccine manufactured by the Institute for Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, which should be used for prophylactic vaccinations of subjects working in forests who comprised 29% of the vaccines. In this way, TBE incidence in the region could be reduced considerably.