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Surveillance of tick-borne encephalitis virus in wild birds and ticks in Tomsk city and its suburbs (Western Siberia).
Ticks and tick-borne diseases - 1 Mar 2014
Mikryukova Tamara P, Moskvitina Nina S, Kononova Yulia V, Korobitsyn Igor G, Kartashov Mikhail Y, Tyuten Kov Oleg Y, Protopopova Elena V, Romanenko Vladimir N, Chausov Evgeny V, Gashkov Sergey I, Konovalova Svetlana N, Moskvitin Sergey S, Tupota Natalya L, Sementsova Alexandra O, Ternovoi Vladimir A, Loktev Valery B
Abstract excerpt
To study the role of wild birds in the transmission of tick borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), we investigated randomly captured wild birds bearing ixodid ticks in a very highly endemic TBE region located in Tomsk city and its suburbs in the south of Western Siberia, Russia. The 779 wild birds representing 60 species were captured carrying a total of 841 ticks, Ixodes pavlovskyi Pom., 1946 (n=531), Ixodes...
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