Detection of enzootic territories and exploration of tularemia epizootics in different types of natural foci of this infection by serological examination of bird pellets and the excrements of beasts of prey.
Serological analysis (reaction of antibody neutralization) of pellets of birds and excrements of beasts of prey for the presence of tularemia microbe antigen is an efficient method of detection and investigation of epizootics in all types of natural foci of the infection and also for the exploration of new focal territories. The method permits with small expenditure of labour and within a short time, to collect material characterizing the epizootic process on a large territory. Tularemia epizootics, both having taken place in the past and ruinning at the moment of observation, are detected. It is possible to carry out the observations even in the years of a reduced number of the main carriers of the agent of tularemia and thus to trace the continuity of the epizootic process. The obtained data permit to establish the essential characteristics of the epizootic process. Detailed maps of the foci can be drawn and territories of stable preservation of infection detected.
D000818:Animals; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis*; D001717:Birds / Q000276:immunology*; D005243:Feces / Q000276:immunology; D005604:Francisella tularensis / Q000276:immunology*; D008322:Mammals / Q000276:immunology*; D009500:Neutralization Tests; D014406:Tularemia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014586:USSR
D000942:Antigens, Bacterial