TICK BITE- CARRIERS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF CHILDREN IN TERNOPIL REGION (UKRAINE)

Authors

  • I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University
  • I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University
  • Ternopil National Medical University
  • I. Ya. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University
  • Ternopil Volodymyk Hnatiuk National pedagogical University

Keywords:

Lyme borreliosis, B. burgdorferi, A. Phagocytophilum, neuroborreliosis, B. miyamotoi, children

Abstract

The results of the monitoring the children s after tick bite during the spring-autumn period in 2018 in Ternopil region are presented Objectives There were cases when the ticks were infected with multiple pathogens (B. burgdorferi sensu lato with A. Phagocytophilum, B. miyamotoi and A. Phagocytophilum) simultaneously. Regarding the importance of different stages of Ixodes ricinus development in the transmission of infectious agents, it has been shown that a greater number of contaminated individuals were among females and nymphs. From 128 infected ticks-carries of infectious agents were 36. 7% females, 59.4%nymphs, 0.78% male and 3. 1% larvae.

Author Biographies

, I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University

MD, PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Children’s Diseases and Pediatric Surgery

, I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University

Professor, Head of the Department

Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology

, Ternopil National Medical University

MD, PhD, Associated Professor,

Department of Biology Horbachvsky 

, I. Ya. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University

MD, PhD, DSc, professor

Head of the Medical Biology Department

, Ternopil Volodymyk Hnatiuk National pedagogical University

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of botany and zoology

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Published

2021-03-22

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 11(63) (2020)

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