title: [Conditions for maintaining a natural focus of tick-borne spirochetosis in southern Tadzhikistan].
abstract: The spontaneous infection of B. latyshevi population of O. tartakovskyi and its hosts in the foothill zone of southern Tadjikistan was studied. A great part of the Horsfield's terrapin unsusceptible to the spirochaete in the feeding of the tick's population was established. The foci is apparently maintained on account of the rising number of the redtailed Libyan jird. In years of the depression of rodents number the main part in the preservation of the infection belongs to the ticks.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D001898:Borrelia / Q000472:pathogenicity; D001899:Borrelia Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004199:Disease Vectors; D006801:Humans; D012377:Rodentia; D013145:Spirochaetales Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D013620:Tajikistan; D013984:Tick Infestations / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology
vernacular_title: Usloviia podderzhaniia prirodnogo ochaga kleshchevogo spirokhetoza v iuzhnom Tadzhikistane