V knige rassmotreny voprosy istorii i epidemiologii sifilisa v Tsentral'noy Azii, priveden obzor imeyushchikhsya publikatsiy ob evolyutsii treponematozov, paleopatologicheskikh issledovaniyakh na territorii Tsentral'noy Azii, vklyuchaya territoriyu Krasnoyarskogo kraya, respublik Khakasiya i Tyva, Mongolii i Severnogo Kitaya. Predstavleny novye dannye o vliyanii immunogeneticheskikh faktorov na epidemicheskiy protsess pri sifilise i vozmozhnosti matematicheskogo modelirovaniya sifiliticheskoy infektsii. Dannaya monografiya budet predstavlyat' interes dlya dermatovenerologov, epidemiologov, infektsionistov, spetsialistov po istorii meditsiny.