DOI: 10.26155/vet.zoo.bio.202005005
UDC 615.281
Authors
N. V. Pimenov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences,
Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine
and Biotechnology – MVA by K. I. Skryabin,
Moscow, Russian Federation
E. A. Pustovit
Student of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,
Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine
and Biotechnology – MVA by K.I. Skryabin,
Moscow, Russian Federation
A. V. Pavlova
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Microbiology,
Lugansk National Agrarian University,
Lugansk, Ukraine
Abstract
Solving the problem of antibiotic resistance is currently one of the key goals for medicine. The work is devoted to evaluating the effectiveness of the most common antibacterial drugs against microorganisms involved in the etiopathogenesis of external pathologies of dogs and cats, as well as determining the potential for using bacteriophages as an alternative to antibiotics. The results of the study showed that most of the isolated pathogenic bacteria showed resistance or low sensitivity to the action of antibiotics in more than 50% of cases, while the lytic action of a phage homologous to each bacterium was recorded in 83% of cases. The results allow us to expand the аrsenal of antimicrobial medicines for the treatment of external pathologies in small animals.
Keywords
bacteriophages, antibiotics, antibiotic resistance, external pathologies, cats, dogs, skin
