Monitoring of orthochantaviruses among small mammals in Western Siberia: potential for cooperation between public health and veterinary professionals

УДК 578.53
DOI 10.33861/2071-8020-2023-3-28-31

Okhlopkova O. V., Stolbunova K. A., Stepanyuk M. A., Yurchenko Yu. A., Popov I. V., Ermakov A. M., Kabve E., Davidyuk Yu. N., Khaybullina S. F., Shestopalov A. M.

Summary. Orthohantaviruses continue to pause a serious case of emerging and reemerging infections in human health care. This work aims to demonstrate the importance of conducting epidemiological monitoring studies among small mammals for the presence of viral RNAs, which is relevance for the development of preventive measures more especially in rural areas where people are more exposed. The work is devoted to the study of virus distributions circulating among small mammals, including bats in the south of Western Siberia for the period 2021-2022. Four hundred rodents and insectivores, as well as 130 bats caught in the territories of Novosibirsk, Kemerovo regions and Altai Territory were analyzed. The studies were carried out using standard molecular biological techniques. As a result, the circulation of Puumala-like viruses and Tula orthohantavirus among rodents and insectivores was established on the territory of Novosibirsk region. So far, monitoring of orthohantavirus RNA among bats has not shown any positive results.

Keywords: monitoring, zoonoses, orthohantaviruses, small mammals, bats, Western Siberia, Novosibirsk region, Kemerovo region, Altai region.

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Author affiliation:

Ohlopkova Olesya V., Ph. D. in Biology, senior scientific researcher of the department of biophysics and ecological research of the Vector Rospotrebnadzor; senior scientific researcher of the Laboratory of Virus Genomics and Evolution of the Scientific Research Institute of Virology of the Federal Research Center for Basic and Translational Medicine; e-mail: ohlopkova.lesia@yandex.ru.

Stolbunova Kristina A., research assistant of the department of biophysics and ecological research of the Vector Rospotrebnadzor; e-mail: stolbunova_ka@vector.nsc.ru.

Stepanyuk Marina A., research assistant of the department of molecular virology of flaviviruses and viral hepatitis of the Vector Rospotrebnadzor; e-mail: stepanyuk_ma@vector.nsc.ru.

Yurchenko Yury A., Ph.D., senior scientific researcher of the laboratory of insect pathology of the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences; e-mail: yurons@ngs.ru.

Ermakov Alexey M., D. Sc. in Biology, professor, Dean of the faculty of Bioengineering and Veterinary Medicine of the Don State Technical University; e-mail: amermakov@yandex.ru.

Kabwe Emmanuel, Ph. D. in Biology, senior scientific researcher of the OpenLab Gene and Cell Technologies of the Scientific and Clinical Center for Precision and Regenerative Medicine of the Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology of the Kazan (Volga region) Federal University; e-mail: emmanuelkabwe@ymail.com.

Davidyuk Yury N., Ph. D. in Biology, senior scientific researcher of the OpenLab Gene and Cell Technologies of the Scientific and Clinical Center for Precision and Regenerative Medicine of the Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology of the Kazan (Volga region) Federal University; e-mail: davi.djuk@mail.ru.

Khaiboullina Svetlana F., D. Sc. in Medicine, chief scientific researcher of the OpenLab Gene and Cell Technologies of the Scientific and Clinical Center for Precision and Regenerative Medicine of the Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology of the Kazan (Volga region) Federal University; e-mail: sv.khaiboullina@gmail.com.

Shestopalov Aleksandr M., D. Sc. in Biology, professor, director of the Research Institute of Virology of the Federal Research Center for Basic and Translational Medicine; e-mail: amshestopalov@frcftm.ru.

Responsible for correspondence with the editorial board: Popov Igor V., junior scientific researcher of the faculty of Bioengineering and Veterinary Medicine of the Don State Technical University; junior scientific researcher of the division of Immunobiology and Biomedicine of the Sirius University of Science and Technology; junior scientific researcher of the Research Institute of Virology of the Federal Research Center for Basic and Translational Medicine; e-mail: ipopov@donstu.ru.