Borreliosis, encephalitis, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and babesiosis belongs to tick-borne transmissive diseases. These diseases are dangerous for human and animals as well. Moreover, some animals can have no clinical signs of these diseases. These diseases are widely spread across Russian Federation, although only encephalitis and borreliosis (Lyme disease) are being monitored nowadays. At the same time anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and babesiosis (pyroplasmosis) are not being monitored. Thus a goal of monitoring of these diseases appears. The main vector for these diseases are ticks. Ticks can carry and transmit causative agents of the diseases to domestic and wild animals. Thus a goal of monitoring transmissible diseases in different population of ticks gathered in our country appears. In this study PCR was chose. This method is perspective and is widely used to detect infectious diseases nowadays. Moreover this method allows getting results in quite short period of time. The goal of this work is to determine the presence of causative agents of tick-borne diseases in ticks of different species gathered in different areas of Kirov region in 2010–2015 with the help of PCR. Moreover the goal was to determine if there is a relation between a number of infected ticks and its species. To solve these goal a primers, PCR conditions, method of extraction of total nucleic acid from fixed and alive ticks were engineered. Method of extraction of total nucleic acids allowed with the help of a reverse transcriptase to determine tick-borne encephalitis virus in samples. Analyzed ticks were gathered in Kirov region. It was determined that main vectors in these region are of an Ixodes persulcatus and a Dermacentor reticulatus species. It was prooved that the number of infected ticks can vary in time. It was also proved that there is no significant difference in the number of infected with TBEV and Lyme disease causative agents but there is a significant difference in the number of infected ticks with anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and babesiosis causative agents.
An experimental model of pseudotuberculosis infection was developed using Papio hamadryas monkeys. Clinical manifestations and some microbiological and immunological aspects of pseudotuberculosis caused by oral infection of animals are studied. The values of LDs0 of the pseudotuberculosis agent are established for monkeys, white mice, and guinea pigs. Oral infection of monkeys with sublethal doses of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is found to induce a pronounced specific immunity. The efficacy of immunoblotting for serologic diagnosis of pseudotuberculosis in clinically obscure cases is demonstrated.
The presence of genes encoding lignin peroxidase, laccase, and manganese peroxidase was assessed in more than 20 types of polypore fungi collected in the woods of Kirov oblast; the fungi studied had not been previously characterized with regard to ligninolytic enzyme production. Fifteen isolates of eleven basidiomycete species were shown to contain genes coding for all three ligninolytic enzymes. Genes coding for these enzymes
Temperate tularemia bacteriophage was for the first time isolated from the organs of guinea-pig infected with live tularemia vaccine strain N 15 of RIEH line. Negative colonies of bacteriophage were up to 0.2 mm in diameter with incomplete lysis zone at the periphery. In view of the results of electronic microscopy bacteriophage represented filamentous carpuscules. Bacteriophage lyzed bacteria of three subtypes of tularemia etiological agent and bacteria of the main species of legionellosis etiological agents. The simple use of bacteriophage allows to recommend new tularemia bacteriophage GAL for practical application.
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