Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика (Feb 2015)

Study Distribute Pathogens of Tick-Borne Infections, Transmitted of Ticks in the South of the Far East

  • G. N. Leonova,
  • E. I. Bondarenko,
  • A. A. Khvorostyanko,
  • A. V. Kurlovskaya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.31631/2073-3046-2015-14-1-31-35
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 31 – 35

Abstract

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The first time was identified by PCR in real time in Ixodes ticks and leukocyte blood fractions of persons tested after a tick bite, the existence of a number of pathogens of tick-borne infections (B. burgdorferi s.l., B. miyamotoi, A. phagocytophilum, E. chaffeensis/E. muris, tick-borne encephalitis virus) on two focal areas adjacent to Vladivostok. The infection of I. persulcatus B. burgdorferi s.l. reached 31%, and for the first time identified B. miyamotoi, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia - 4%. Detection of RNA of TBE virus in 2 cases in epidemiological season in 2014, indicating a low potential epizootological natural focuses of TBE in the southern Far East.

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