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 PDFis an emerging multidrug-resistant pathogen that causes severe nosocomial and community-acquired infections worldwide. We report the first case of isolation in Russia and the first isolation from raw cow's milk. The ML-44 demonstrated resistance to 28 antimicrobials of 33 tested in the disk-diffusion test.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTotally, 45 strains isolated from meat, poultry, dairy, and fish products in the Central European part of Russia in 2001-2005 and 2019-2020 were typed using a combined MLST and internalin profile (IP) scheme. Strains belonged to 14 clonal complexes (CCs) of the phylogenetic lineages I and II. Almost half of the strains (20 of 45) belonged to six CCs previously recognized as epidemic clones (ECs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Federation experienced a massive outbreak of anthrax in reindeer () in July-August 2016, with 2,650 (6.46% of the total susceptible population) animals infected, of which 2,350 died (case fatality rate of 88.67%).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFListeriosis is one of the most significant humans and animals foodborne infectious diseases. Here, we characterized 48 strains isolated in the territory of inner Eurasia during the second half of the 20th century. A total of 23 strains (52.
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