Problems of diagnosis of viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits

Novikova M.B., Balashova E.A., Lyska V.M., Strizhakova O.M., Sidlik M.V., Kurinnov V.V., Chernykh O.Yu.

Summary

Diagnosis on viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits may be put under epizootiological, clinical, pathological data and laboratory results. So, authors compared the diagnosis of VHDR by laboratory methods – haemagglutination test and ELISA. It was found that haemagglutination test observed 29,2% falsenegative results, in connection with what it is necessary to confirm the results in ELISA. VHDR must be differentiated from pasteurellosis, salmonellosis, colibacillosis, smallpox rabbit myxomatosis, eymerioza (coccidiosis), poisoning, solar and thermal shock.

Certain issues on epizootiology, sampling and comparative differential diagnosis are given in the article.

Key words: diagnostics, viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits (VHDR), haemagglutination test (RHA), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

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Author affiliation

Kurinnov Viktor V., D.Sc. in Veterinary Medicine, professor, laboratory manager of the National Research Institute for Veterinary Virology and Microbiology; Pokrov, Petushki area, Vladimir region, 601120; (49243) 6-21-25; e-mail: vniivvim@niiv.petush.elcom.ru.

Novikova M.B., Ph.D. in Biology, leading researcher of the National Research Institute for Veterinary Virology and Microbiology; Pokrov, Petushki area, Vladimir region, 601120; (49243) 6-21-25; e-mail: vniivvim@niiv.petush.elcom.ru.

Balashova E.A., Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine, leading researcher of the National Research Institute for Veterinary Virology and Microbiology; Pokrov, Petushki area, Vladimir region, 601120; (49243) 6-21-25; e-mail: vniivvim@niiv.petush.elcom.ru.

Strizhakova O.M., Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine, senior researcher of the National Research Institute for Veterinary Virology and Microbiology; Pokrov, Petushki area, Vladimir region, 601120; (49243) 6-21-25; e-mail: vniivvim@niiv.petush.elcom.ru.

Lyska V.M., Ph.D. in Biology, senior researcher of the National Research Institute for Veterinary Virology and Microbiology; Pokrov, Petushki area, Vladimir region, 601120; (49243) 6-21-25; e-mail: vniivvim@niiv.petush.elcom.ru.

Sidlik M.V., Ph.D. in Biology, senior researcher of the National Research Institute for Veterinary Virology and Microbiology; Pokrov, Petushki area, Vladimir region, 601120; (49243) 6-21-25; e-mail: vniivvim@niiv.petush.elcom.ru.

Responsible for correspondence with the editorial board: Chernykh Oleg Yu., D.Sc. in Veterinary Medicine, director of the Kropotkin territorial veterinary laboratory; 303, Krasnoarmeyskaya st., Kropotkin, 352380; phone: 8 (86138) 6-23-14; e-mail: gukkvl50@kubanvet.ru.