Evaluation of Potential Epizootiological Significance of Small Predatory Mammals in Ebola Virus Circulation in the Republic of Guinea

Abstract

The aim of the work is evaluation of potential epizootiological significance of small predatory mammals in Ebola virus circulation in the Republic of Guinea. Registered has been coincidence of the areals of the common species of small predatory mammals of Viverridae family with distribution limits of epidemically significant Chiroptera species and Ebola virus in 1976-2014 in the countries of West, Central, East and South Africa. Substantiated are prospects of analysis of biological samples (blood, internal organs) from different representatives of predatory mammals ( Viverrida, Felidae, Canidae, Mustelidae, Herpestidae ) as well as from domestic dogs, for the purpose to detect natural Ebola fever foci. Pointed out is the necessity of targeted investigation of the mechanism of long-term preservation of Ebola virus in the environmental objects, first of all, in substrates of tree trunks hollows and grots, which are used as day-time shelters by different representatives of Chiroptera and Carnivora (families of Viverrida and Herpestidae).

Keywords

• вирус эбола
• мелкие хищные млекопитающие
• рукокрылые
• биотопы
• объекты внешней среды
• ebola virus
• small predatory mammals
• chiroptera
• biotops
• environmental objects