Screening of bacterial kidney disease in the North-West region of the Russian Federation

Abstract

Our country has all potential for development of an aquaculture as one of sectors of agriculture, due to a huge number of fresh water areas and the extended line of the seas. Bacterial kidney disease, a chronic disease in the Salmonidae family, causes significant damage to aquaculture development. Modern proposals for the use of various antibiotics and chemotherapeutic drugs do not bring a significant effect to control the spread of this disease, and due to the peculiarity of the pathogenesis of the disease, the development of an effective vaccine against bacterial kidney disease is currently difficult, therefore the most effective method of controlling and preventing the disease is early diagnosis of the disease. The article discusses the results of exploratory studies of bacterial kidney disease in fish-breeding enterprises of the North-West region of the Russian Federation for the period from March 2019 to March 2020.