title: [The role of large wildlife in the maintenance of natural foci of tick-borne meningoencephalitis in northern Croatia].
abstract: Between 1986-1988 sera from 245 game animals--37 roe deers, 102 red deers, 81 wild boars and 25 hares--shot in 8 different localities of Nort Croatia, a well-known nosoareal of tick-borne encephalitis, were tested for TBE virus heminhibiting antibodies. The following percentages of positive animals were found: 24, 39, 39 and 0% respectively. Most of the animals examined, 180 of them, were shot in lowland woods of the commune of Nasice and its surroundings. There the percentage of positive animals was somewhat higher: 36, 41, 42 and 0 respectively. As these animals regularly participate in the feeding cycle of the ubiquitous wood tick Ixodes ricinus, the main vector of the tick-borne meningoencephalitis virus, it is infered that they (the hare being excluded in this study), apart from myomorphous mammals, play an important role in the transmission chain of the tick-borne meningoencephalitis virus in the respective natural foci of this zoonosis.
authors.affiliation: Iz Zavoda za zastitu zdravlja SR Hrvatske u Zagrebu, Krapini.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Borcić
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Raos
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kranzelić
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Abu Eldan
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Filipović
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000382:microbiology*; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D003670:Deer / Q000382:microbiology; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004669:Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne / Q000276:immunology; D004675:Encephalitis, Tick-Borne / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007793:Lagomorpha / Q000382:microbiology; D013552:Swine / Q000382:microbiology; D015022:Yugoslavia / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral
vernacular_title: Uloga velikih divljih zivotinja u podrzavanju prirodnog zarista krpeljnog meningoencefalitisa u Sjevernoj Hrvatskoj.