Probability models of the rate of infection with tick-borne encephalitis virus in Ixodes persulcatus ticks. 1992

E I Korenberg, and M Horáková, and J V Kovalevsky, and Z Hubálek, and A S Karavanov
Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, USSR.

A total of 3,254 adults of Ixodes persulcatus tick were collected in a taiga forest habitat situated in the Amgun river basin (Khabarovsk region, the Far East, USSR) and examined individually for the presence and amount of tick-borne encephalitis virus. The over-all proportion of infected ticks was 6.6% and it varied between 3.4% and 9.4% in the years 1982 to 1985. The amount of virus per tick was approximated by the gamma distribution determining a probability that the number of plaque-forming units (PFU) per tick is not greater than a selected value. The frequency distribution of infected ticks followed a model of the negative binomial distribution, enabling the estimation of probability of the occurrence of a given number of infected ticks in the area. However, the parameters of both probability models (i.e., the PFU content per tick, and the frequency of infected ticks) varied for particular years.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D011336 Probability The study of chance processes or the relative frequency characterizing a chance process. Probabilities
D004669 Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne A subgroup of the genus FLAVIVIRUS that causes encephalitis and hemorrhagic fevers and is found in eastern and western Europe and the former Soviet Union. It is transmitted by TICKS and there is an associated milk-borne transmission from viremic cattle, goats, and sheep. Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Omsk,Kyasanur Forest disease virus,Langat virus,Louping ill virus,Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus,Powassan virus,Al-Khurma Hemorrhagic Fever Virus,Al-Khurma virus,Al-Khurma virus (ALKV),Alkhurma Hemorrhagic Fever Virus,Alkhurma virus,Alkhurma virus (ALKV),Encephalitis Virus, Tick-Borne,Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus,Tick-Borne Encephalitis Viruses,Viruses, Tick-Borne Encephalitis,Al Khurma Hemorrhagic Fever Virus,Al Khurma virus,Al Khurma virus (ALKV),Encephalitis Virus, Tick Borne,Encephalitis Viruses, Tick Borne,Louping ill viruses,Tick Borne Encephalitis Virus,Tick Borne Encephalitis Viruses
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D001096 Arachnid Vectors Members of the class Arachnida, especially SPIDERS; SCORPIONS; MITES; and TICKS; which transmit infective organisms from one host to another or from an inanimate reservoir to an animate host. Arachnid Vector,Vector, Arachnid,Vectors, Arachnid
D013987 Ticks Blood-sucking acarid parasites of the order Ixodida comprising two families: the softbacked ticks (ARGASIDAE) and hardbacked ticks (IXODIDAE). Ticks are larger than their relatives, the MITES. They penetrate the skin of their host by means of highly specialized, hooked mouth parts and feed on its blood. Ticks attack all groups of terrestrial vertebrates. In humans they are responsible for many TICK-BORNE DISEASES, including the transmission of ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TULAREMIA; BABESIOSIS; AFRICAN SWINE FEVER; and RELAPSING FEVER. (From Barnes, Invertebrate Zoology, 5th ed, pp543-44) Ixodida,Ixodidas,Tick
D014586 USSR A country located from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, for a time including 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. The capital was Moscow. Soviet Union,Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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