Abstract

Epizootological monitoring of avian influenza (AI) occurrence in Kostanaiskaya oblast of Kazakhstan was conducted. The staff of the laboratories of the Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems carried out the research in virus isolation from the materials sampled from wild and domestic birds in Kostanaiskaya oblast with use of double blind passage in chicken embryos (CE), hemagglutination test, polymerase chain reaction and electron microscopy. The laboratory studies resulted in detection of an AI virus antigen H5N1 in samples from gulls, starlings and from a mallard.

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