Old and new tick-borne infections in Russia

• Veronika V. Provorova
• Krasnova Elena I.
• Natalya I. Khokhlova
• Savel’eva Mariya A.
• Evgeniya S. Filimonova
• Kuznetsova Vera G.

Abstract

The article presents statistical data on the incidence of tick-borne infections in the Russian Federation and its regions. Along with the epidemiology and clinical picture of well-known tick-borne infections (ixodic tick-borne borreliosis, tick-borne viral encephalitis, tick-borne typhus of North Asia, Crimean hemorrhagic fever), the characteristics of less studied infections transmitted by ticks - human granulocytic anaplasmosis, monocytic human ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, Marseilles fever are presented. The data of modern researches on new tick infections in the territory of the Russian Federation caused by V. miyamotoi, R. raoultii, R. heilongjiangensis are reflected.

Keywords:ixodid tick-borne borreliosis, borreliosis miyamotoi, tick-borne rickettsiosis, babesiosis, tick-borne virus encephalitis, human monocyte erlichiosis, granulocyte human anaplasmosis

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