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Ю.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Yanchevskaya</surname><given-names>E. Yu.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Янчевская Елена Юрьевна — кандидат медицинских наук, доцент, доцент кафедры дерматовенерологии</p><p>ул. Бакинская, д. 121, г. Астрахань, 414000</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Elena Yu. Yanchevskaya — Cand. Sci. (Med.), Assoc. Prof., Department of Dermatovenerology</p><p>Bakinskaya str., 121, Astrakhan, 414000</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Меснянкина</surname><given-names>О. А.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Mesnyankina</surname><given-names>O. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Меснянкина Ольга Александровна — кандидат медицинских наук, ассистент кафедры дерматовенерологии</p><p>ул. Бакинская, д. 121, г. Астрахань, 414000</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Olga A. Mesnyankina — Cand. Sci. (Med.), Research Assistant, Department of Dermatovenerology</p><p>Bakinskaya str., 121, Astrakhan, 414000</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">olga_mesnyankina@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Астраханский государственный медицинский университет» Министерства здравоохранения Российской Федерации</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Astrakhan State Medical University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2019</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>15</day><month>09</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>26</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>123</fpage><lpage>130</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Янчевская Е.Ю., Меснянкина О.А., 2019</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2019</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Янчевская Е.Ю., Меснянкина О.А.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Yanchevskaya E.Y., Mesnyankina O.A.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://ksma.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1865">https://ksma.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1865</self-uri><abstract><p>В статье обобщены имеющиеся представления об источниках и путях передачи лепры. Детально раскрыта эволюция взглядов на проблему возникновения и механизма передачи инфекции. Особое внимание уделено современным направлениям научных исследований и актуальным достижениям современной лепрологии.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The present article summarises existing ideas about the sources of leprosy and the modes of its transmission. The authors cover the evolution of views on the origin of this infection along with the mechanism underlying its transmission. 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