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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1d1" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2415-8410</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2415-8429</issn><publisher><publisher-name>FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3096</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.69541/NRIPH.2025.04.024</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Научная статья</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>L. A. Favorova's contribution to the development of Russian epidemiology</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sarkisov</surname><given-names>Armen Surenovich</given-names></name><bio></bio><email>as.sar@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gerasimova</surname><given-names>Alexandra Georgievna</given-names></name><bio></bio><email>info@gabrich.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tikhonova</surname><given-names>Nina Timofeevna</given-names></name><bio></bio><email>info@gabrich.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff-1">N. A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health, 105064, Moscow, Russian Federation</aff><aff id="aff-2">FBIS «G. N. Gabrichevsky Research Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology», 125212, Moscow, Russian Federation</aff><pub-date date-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2025-11-29" publication-format="electronic"><day>29</day><month>11</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><issue>4</issue><fpage>146</fpage><lpage>148</lpage><history><pub-date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-12-01"><day>01</day><month>12</month><year>2025</year></pub-date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2025,</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year></permissions><abstract>Based on the study of literary materials, archival documents, memoirs of colleagues and laboratory staff, the article presents for the first time a detailed scientific biography of a prominent figure of Russian medicine, Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences Lidia Alexandrovna Favorova. The role of Professor L. V. Gromashevsky in the formation of L. A. Favorova as a researcher is noted. The importance of L. A. Favorovas research for the study and control of meningococcal infection is highlighted. Her participation in the development and implementation of a modern system of epidemiological surveillance of infections is indicated.</abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>infectious diseases, elimination of infections, typhus, meningococcus, meningococcal vaccine, epidemiological surveillance</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>инфекционные болезни, ликвидация инфекций, сыпной тиф, менингококк, менингококковая вакцина, эпидемиологический надзор</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Фаворова Л. А. К проблеме ликвидации отдельной инфекционной болезни на определенной территории: Автореферат диссертации на соискание ученой степени кандидата медицинских наук. М.; 1951.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Фаворова Л. А. О проблеме ликвидации инфекционных болезней. М.: Медгиз; 1955.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B3"><label>3.</label><mixed-citation>К 95-летию профессора Костюковой Натальи Николаевны: 73 года служения науке: Редакционная статья. Журнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии. 2020;97(3):281.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B4"><label>4.</label><mixed-citation>Костюкова Н. Н., Бехало В. А., Чернышова Т. Ф. Менингококковая инфекция в России: прошлое и ближайшие перспективы. Эпидемиология и инфекционные болезни. 2014;(2):73—79.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B5"><label>5.</label><mixed-citation>Фаворова Л. А. Эпидемиологическое значение различных источников инфекции: (На модели дифтерии и менингококкового менингита): Автореферат диссертации на соискание ученой степени доктора медицинских наук. М.; 1967.</mixed-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
