[The survival of the causative agent of plaque in the long-tailed suslik from a Tuva natural focus in wintertime].
The survival of the causative agent of plague in the long-tailed souslik in the Tuva natural focus in winter was experimentally studied. They were made in a special bunker laboratory just in the focus. The experimental conditions were close to the hygrothermal parameters of a long-tailed souslik's burrow. Inoculation and placement of the animals and fleas into the bunker were accomplished in the September to early October. The rodents and ectoparasites were examined after their hibernation in the late April to early May of the following year. The duration of the experiment was 7.5 months. It has been found that the long-tailed souslik can be infected with the causative agent of plague before hibernation through transmission. There were no cases of plague microbial infection through the bite of fleas in sousliks following hibernation. Low infection rates of the fleas hibernating with their host were notified. The causative agent was found to survive in the mummified carcasses of sousliks for 7.5 months (the follow-up period).
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Maevskiĭ
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Bazanova
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Popkov
D000818:Animals; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood; D002353:Carrier State / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000662:veterinary*; D006605:Hibernation; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000382:microbiology; D010930:Plague / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D012589:Sciuridae / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000469:parasitology; D012621:Seasons; D012800:Siberia; D005423:Siphonaptera / Q000382:microbiology; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial
O sokhranenii vobuditelia chumy u dlinnokhvostogo suslika iz Tuvinskogo prirodnogo ochaga v zimniĭ period.