Role of artificial protective forest belts of West Siberia railroad right-of-way in natural foci of tick-borne encephalitis

Dorontsova, V.A.; Chudinov, P.I.

Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 40(3): 283-286

1971


ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326
PMID: 5107179
Document Number: 37284
The occurrence of Ixodes persulcatus Schulze in protective forest belts of the Western Siberian Railway where forest has been established artificially has created conditions conducive to the formation of secondary foci of tick-borne encephalitis and to the infection of workers on the railway. The tick population is maintained by domestic animals owned by such workers and by feral small mammals. The species composition of feral small mammals is identical in natural and artificial forest along the railway. The activities of the railway workers in the course of earning their livelihood cause them to be in uninterrupted contact with the vector in protective forest belts, whether natural or artificial.

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