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ISSN 2500-0802
ПИ №ФС77-61154

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EPIZOOTOLOGICAL SITUATION OF LYME BORRELIOSIS IN DOGS IN THE OMSK

Laktyushina O.A. 1 Pleshakova V.I. 1 Rudakova S.A. 2
1 FSBEI HPI «Omsk State University of Agriculture named after P.A. Stolypin» Institute of veterinary medicine and biotechnology
2 FSIS Omsk Research Institute of natural focal infections of the Russian Federal Consumer Rights Protection and Human Health Control Service
Lyme borreliosis is a vector-borne disease in dogs, whose causative agent is Borrelia burgdorferi, transmitted by Ixodes. The purpose of work was to investigate the epidemiological situation on Lyme borreliosis in dogs in the Omsk. The work was done on the basis of the analysis of these studies ticks and blood serum from animals in the period from 2011 to 2014. The analysis of laboratory tests of blood serum 996 dogs using reaction of indirect immunofluorescence and 1597 ticks by PCR and microscopy. During work it was established that among all surveyed ticks were infected with 28 (1.8%), which in turn proves the existence of natural foci of disease in the region. The causative agent has been isolated in the form ticks Ixodes persulcatus (42.8%), and in Dermacenter reticulatus (57.2%). During the reporting period of 996 dogs examined, 34 animals (3.4%) in serum were detected specific antibodies to Borrelia and seven dogs (0.7 %) - the DNA of the pathogen, and the specific antibodies in the blood of these dogs not detected, indicating that the recent infestation of animals. We found that the incidence Lyme borreliosis in dogs has increased in the period from 2011 to 2013 from 0.6 % to 1.7 %. Predisposition to this disease male and younger dog also revealed. Free-ranging dogs and captive maintenance are greater risk of infection, mean greater possibility of contact with the tick.