1 Laboratory of Indication of Especially Dangerous Biological Pathogenic Agents, Mechnikov Ukrainian Anti-Plague Research Institute of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Odesa, Ukraine.
2 Department of Epidemiology, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine.
3 Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.