ABOUT WAYS OF INFECTION WITH ANTHRAX
At the moment, there is no common opinion about the path through which parts of the digestive tract the causative agent of anthrax penetrates into the host's body during alimentary infection. Considering the contradictory nature of the available literature data and in accordance with the assignment, we conducted studies on the evaluation of various methods of infection and the development of the most effective technology for experimental infection of cattle, which could be used in veterinary practice to evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic and preventive means of anthrax. To solve this problem, 3 series of experiments were conducted on a 7-8-month-old youngster of cattle that was not immunized against anthrax. Thus, as a result of the studies, a method for infecting cattle with a 100% lethal outcome has been developed. The developed method of infection opens up wide opportunities for studying immunogenesis in anthrax, duration of immunity, determination of optimal vaccinedoses used for the prevention of this disease and, thereby, will improve the means of immunization of anthrax of cattle.