The episootology of rabies in the Republic of Buryatia

The results of epizootological monitoring of rabies in the Republic of Buryatia during 37 years are given in the study. During 1981-2011 the Republic of Buryatia was the region of the Russian Federation, safe on rabies. In 2011 rabies was registered in three cows in one of set- tlements of Zakamensky area of the Republic of Buryatia. The preliminary diagnosis on rabies was made on the basis of classical clinical signs and further was confirmed with laboratory researches. Phylogenetic analysis of isolates of the virus of rabies carried out at FSBI “Federal Center of Health Protection of Animal”s showed that allocated virus belonged to group, wide- spread in steppe and forest-steppe zones of Eurasia and was ecologically connected mainly with foxes. The virus with this nucleotide sequence of a gene of N (1353 items of N) earlier it was allocated in animals of Mongo- lia. In the next 3 years the virus of rabies extended from the West on the East among wild carnivorous and farmanimals on the valley of river of Dzhid...