SEROLOGICAL MONITORING FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN 2017–2018
Journal: Veterinary Science Today
Year: 2019

Avian influenza is a highly contagious avian viral disease notifiable to the World Organiza­tion for Animal Health that causes huge economic losses and poses a great threat to poultry farms worldwide. A total of 60,697 serum samples from poultry and 581 serum samples from wild and synanthropic birds were submitted to the Reference Laboratory for Avian Viral Diseases of the FGBI “ARRIAH” (Vladimir) from 34 regions in 2017–2018 in the frame­work of monitoring carried out by the Federal Service for