2023-05-19 20:52:09
The other ticks were found in their natural habitats in the Russian republics of Buryatia and Tuva on bats captured by scientists.
Scientists from the Tyumen State Medical University have discovered and described three new types of dangerous ticks that live in Russia and can cause the plague and West Nile fever, a deadly disease of the nervous system, reports RIA Novosti.
These parasites are widespread in Siberia and Mongolia, according to a study statement published in the Persian Journal of Acarology.
The scientists concluded that the collected specimens might be described as new species following studying a large amount of literature, including books in Chinese and Japanese.
“The detected parasites belong to two families: Spinturnicidae and Macronyssidae. Representatives of the first family are known as carriers of bartonellosis [enfermedad de Carrión, fiebre de La Oroya y verruga peruana]and those of the second – a series of dangerous natural focal infections, including tick-borne encephalitis, borreliosis [o la a enfermedad de Lyme]West Nile fever, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, tularemia [infección bacteriana en roedores salvajes] and plague,” said Maria Orlova, an associate professor at the Tyumen Medical University.
Bat parasites (ticks, fleas, and blood-sucking flies) are known to be actively involved in the spread of many infections within the colony.
Scientists found one of the described arthropods in 2020, while studying the alcohol-preserved bat collections of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University.
The other ticks were found in their natural habitats in the Russian republics of Buryatia and Tuva on bats captured by scientists.
The researchers state that these arthropods are morphologically different from those previously described and belong to an ecosystem located further south in the Asian part of Russia, presumably China.
Hence, in the future the researchers plan to cooperate with Chinese specialists.
The next step in the research will be to study their molecular genetics to explain the relationship between the discovered species and those already known. In addition, the scientists plan to study the involvement of parasites in the spread of various infections.
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