MODERN EPIZOOTIC SITUATION ON STRONGYLATOSIS OF HORSES IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Abstract

This article presents systematized data describing the dynamics of the epizootic process of horse strongylatosis in the territory of the Russian Federation monitoring the latter. In our work, the following sources of statistical data were used: population atlas of the main types of agricultural animals in the Russian Federation, data from the 2016 All-Russian Agricultural Census and veterinary reporting for the period from 2012 to 2017 using the 1-Vet and 4-Vet forms. Parasitic diseases of horses in the form of veterinary reporting are not sufficiently reflected, but the situation with their helminth infections remains tense. The annual decline in the level and number of preventive treatments for horses is negative in terms of the spread of strongylatosis. The emergence of cases of patients with horse strongylatosis, for the first time in many years, in the Stavropol Territory, favors future negative dynamics. And newly recorded cases after a short absence in the Volga and North Caucasus Federal Districts. The annual high percentage of infected horses with strongylatosis calls into question the quality of the immune response during routine vaccinations against infectious diseases, the use of infested horses as producers of therapeutic sera in the territory of the Russian Federation. The need to combat these geohelminthic infections of horses is an important part of measures for the preservation and qualitative improvement of the livestock of horses in Russia. In our reality, the demand for breeding and sporting horses is increasing. The improvement of livestock can be achieved only by creating a complex of timely preventive, diagnostic measures, assessing the quality of deworming and analyzing the errors of the previous period.