[Zoonoses as occupational diseases]

The article represents materials on risk for animal husbandry workers of being infected with Coxiella and Leptospira. The authors describe contemporary difficulties in diagnosis and epidemiologic surveillance for these diseases. The materials demonstrate that undiagnosed infected (ill) animals on veterinary objects, with violated biologic safety rules, could promote contraction of zoonotic infection by susceptible subjects (workers engaged into animal husbandry and enterprises on animal materials processing). Contemporary laboratory methods and professional skills enable opportune and complete diagnosis of infections and diseases, with further possibility to apply preventive measures efficiently.