NO NATURAL FOCUS OF TULAREMIA IN MURMANSK OBLAST

Contradictory data concerning the existence of a natural focus of tularemia in Murmansk oblast prompted the investigations seeking to establish the existence of such a focus on the Kola peninsula. The examination of more than 9,000 rodents and 15,000 of their ectoparasites, some of them normally hos...

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Main Author: Aksenenko, G. R.
Other Authors: ARMY FOREIGN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER CHARLOTTESVILLE VA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1967
Subjects:
Microbiology
*FRANCISCELLA TULARENSIS
ECOLOGY
RODENTS
DISEASES
LICE
SIPHONAPTERA
TICKS
CULICIDAE
DIPTERA
SERODIAGNOSIS
IMMUNITY
ALLERGIC DISEASES
DISEASE VECTORS
DISTRIBUTION
USSR
TRANSLATIONS
Kola Peninsula
Murmansk
kola peninsula
Murmansk Oblast
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Summary:Contradictory data concerning the existence of a natural focus of tularemia in Murmansk oblast prompted the investigations seeking to establish the existence of such a focus on the Kola peninsula. The examination of more than 9,000 rodents and 15,000 of their ectoparasites, some of them normally hosts and vectors of the tularemia pathogen, anamnestic studies of the natives, serological tests with tularin and agglutination reaction, interrogation of the natives and travels, and records of the health stations failed to confirm the existence of a focus of the disease in the region. (Author) Trans. of Zhurnal Mikrobiologii, Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii (USSR) n5 p83-87 1967.

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