Ixodid ticks in the mountainous part of the Crimea
Markeshin, S.I.; Evstaf'ev, I.L.; Kovin, V.V.; Evstratov, I.V.
Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 4: 34-37
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326 PMID: 1435578 Document Number: 399507
About a hundred of patients with tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) were recorded over the latest decade in the Crimea, and 60 TBE virus strains were isolated from the ticks collected on the peninsula. The results of studies carried out in 1986-1990 helped define the borders of 4 local natural foci of TBE, study their acarifauna, detect the principal TBE vector--Ixodes ricinus (with a mean virophority of 0.6%), and distinguish two foci with a combination of TBE and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.