title: [Changes in the village foci of tick-borne relapsing fever in Uzbekistan over a 10-year period].
abstract: The paper presents the results of repeated investigations in the tick relapsing fever nidus (TRF) conducted after a ten-year interval in Gava settlement situated in the foothill area of the Namangan Province of Uzbekistan. A considerable deterioration in the habitat conditions of the vector, Ornithodoros papillipes Bir., due to the intensified anthropogenic effect, and decrease in its number have been noted. The distribution range of the tick (percent of infested farmsteads) in this case did not reduce. The infection rate of the vector's population with the tick relapsing fever agent decreased that points indirectly to a higher mortality of infected ticks under unfavourable conditions. Wavy course of morbidity with TRF during the period between investigations shows that changes that took place in the nidus were not uniform in their character and may have resulted to some extent from natural cycles. A similar character of anthropogenic effect on the populations of ticks in the settlement natural nidi suggests that the above changes are common to the nidi of this infection.
authors.forename: I S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Vasil'eva
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Ershova
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Mansurov
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Andrianov
authors.forename: Z I
authors.initials: ZI
authors.lastname: Abidov
authors.forename: Iu I
authors.initials: IuI
authors.lastname: Ibragimov
authors.forename: N N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Narmatov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001096:Arachnid Vectors / Q000382:microbiology; D001898:Borrelia / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004463:Ecology; D006801:Humans; D011156:Population Density; D012061:Relapsing Fever / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology; D013997:Time Factors; D014610:Uzbekistan / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Ob izmeneniiakh poselkovykh ochagov kleshchevogo vozvratnogo tifa v Uzbekistane za desiatiletniĭ period.