THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STATUS AND SPREAD OF DERMACENTOR RETICULATUS TICKS IN UKRAINE OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS

Abstract

The aim: To analyze the study of the D. reticulatus ticks epidemiology and to carry out their own examinations of ticks for their infection with pathogens of infectious diseases. Materials and methods: Identification of ticks was performed by an optoelectronic SEO system – IMAGLAB. Detection of pathogens in the studied ticks was carried out in research laboratory of I. Horbachevsky TNMU by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in real time using the amplifier “RotorGene – 6000”. Results: The review of scientific publications concerning an epidemiological condition of D. reticulatus ticks in particular countries of Europe and in Ukraine is carried out. According to the PCR results, 5 cases out of 21 samples of Borelia burgdorferi s.l. and Anaplasma phagocytophilum was detected. Researchers and students of I. Horbachevsky TNMU during 2017-2019 conducted field meetings in 74 locations from 10 regions of Ukraine: Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Ternopil, Volyn, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsia. In 2000-2018, researchers at the Department of Acarology of the I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine the distribution of D. reticulatus in 311 locations in 79 settlements of its eastern and southern regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea revealed. Conclusions: Medical geographic information system allows to create electronic cartographic models for scientific research and practical use for systematic monitoring, accounting and control of the medical and geographical situation of the study area on the prevalence of ticks and morbidity.