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The role of birds in the focus of tick-borne infections was studied from 2006 to 2011. The frequency index of ticks carried by ground dwelling birds is about 49.7%. The index of their abundance is 3.8. The larvae of ticks have been found on birds in 43.8% of cases. Nymphs and adult ticks have been found in 39.9 and 16.3%, respectively. It was revealed that Ixodex pavlovskyi was transferred and dominated in the urban microfoci because of its ornithophily. The markers of infectious agents have been recorded in 42 of 60 bird species under study.
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Original Russian Text © N.S. Moskvitina, I.G. Korobitsyn, O.Yu. Tyuten’kov, S.I. Gashkov, Yu.V. Kononova, S.S. Moskvitin, V.N. Romanenko, T.P. Mikryukova, E.V. Protopopova, M.Yu. Kartashov, E.V. Chausov, S.N. Konovalova, N.L. Tupota, A.O. Sementsova, V.A. Ternovoi, V.B. Loktev, 2014, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2014, No. 4, pp. 408–414.
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Moskvitina, N.S., Korobitsyn, I.G., Tyuten’kov, O.Y. et al. The role of birds in the maintenance of tick-borne infections in the Tomsk anthropurgic foci. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 41, 387–393 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359014040086
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