Publications by authors named "A A Blokhin"
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- Parapoxviruses are viruses that primarily affect ruminants and usually have a limited host range, but the pseudocowpox virus (PCPV) can infect humans as well.
- A new case of PCPV was reported in northern Russia (Irkutsk region), occurring in herds without immune animals or new arrivals.
- The study confirmed the Irkutsk isolate as PCPV through genetic analysis, showing a close relation to PCPV strains from Europe and the USA, although the B2L gene's conservation makes it hard to link strains to their geographic origins.
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- Avian influenza (AI) poses a global threat to birds and mammals, resulting in significant economic losses in both commercial and backyard poultry settings, with over 8,500 cases reported in 2022.
- Outbreaks have been particularly prevalent in the Russian Federation since 2020, driven largely by wild migratory birds that act as reservoirs for the virus and can facilitate the emergence of new, dangerous variants.
- Monitoring studies in 2021 in the Samara Oblast detected a highly pathogenic A/H5N1 strain in wild birds, revealing connections to other global isolates and underscoring the urgent need for better information sharing and comprehensive research on virus spread.
African swine fever (ASF) is an infectious disease that affects both domestic pigs (DPs) and wild boar (WB). The WB population plays an important role in the spread of ASF as the WB acts as a natural reservoir of the virus and transmits it to other susceptible wild and domestic pigs. Our study was aimed at revealing the areas with a high concentration of the WB population, and their potential relationships with the grouping of ASF cases in WB during the course of the ASF spread in the Russian Federation (2007-2022).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Escherichia marmotae is a bacterium of the Enterobacterales order, which was first isolated from the Himalayan marmot (Marmota himalayana). Recently E. marmotae has been shown to cause severe infections in humans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAeromonas spp. are gram-negative facultatively anaerobic bacilli recovered mainly from aquatic environments. Aeromonas spp.
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