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).