FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WILD BIRDS AS HOSTS OF IXODES TICKS IN THE TOMSK FOCUS OF TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS
Abstract
In the natural conditions of the Tomsk focus of tick-borne encephalitis the following are active hosts of wood tick larvae and nymphs: the tree pipit, the fieldfare, the thrust, the song thrush, the yellowhammer, the whitecapped bunting the spring wood warbler, the northern wood warbler, the magpie, the European starling, the Arctic rosy finch, the finch, the European bullfinch. A large number of the larvae, nymphs, and imagoes of Ixodes crenulatus ticks were found on the bank swallow. Ticks appeared on the birds during the first half of May, their number reaching a maximum at the middle of June and dropping to a minimum by the middle of August.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0671619
Entities
People
- Yu. V. Fedorov
Organizations
- United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories