VIROLOGY DEPARTMENT.
LABORATORY FOR SWINE DISEASE STUDY


The Head of the Laboratory:
BUZUN Andriy Igorovych, Candidate of Science (Vet. Med.)
phone: (057) 707-20-36
buzun@vet.kharkov.ua

   Research areas:
 – study of causal factors of epizootic process by the method of experimental and epizootiological investigation of:
  • nfectious and protective characteristics of swine emerging diseases agents;
  • agents of neuro- (Aujeszky’s disease, Teschen disease, other infectious encephalitis) and reproductive- neonatal swine infections (PRRS, PCV-2, PPVI and mixed infections caused with these agents composition);
 – development of new and improvement of existent systems of antiepizootic measures in pig-breeding on the base of development of:
  • diagnostic, vaccinal, chemotherapeutical preparations and disinfectants;
  • systems for risk-analysis of emergence and spread of swine viral diseases of different etiology;
  • standards for biosafety of swine-breeding and human food chain.


Expertise areas: epizootology, virology, microbiology (Classical and African swine fever, Aujeszky’s disease, Teschen disease, listeriosis, porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome, swine circovirus and parvovirus infections).