Accession Number:

AD0672664

Title:

WILD BIRDS--HOSTS OF TICK LARVAE AND NYMPHS IN THE TOMSK FOCUS OF TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMY BIOLOGICAL LABS FREDERICK MD

Personal Author(s):

• Fedorov, Yu. V.

Report Date:

1968-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

13.0

Abstract:

The objective of the research was to determine the role of various species of wild birds as hosts to the different stages of metamorphosis of the wood tick. This research was done in the Tomsk focus of tick-borne encephalitis during 1954-1955.

Descriptors:

• *BIRDS
• USSR
• DISEASES
• TICKS
• DISEASE VECTORS
• NYMPH
• ARBOVIRUSES
• LARVAE
• TRANSLATIONS
• INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Subject Categories:

• Biology
• Ecology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE