The first detection of the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) RNA in Dermacentor reticulatus ticks collected from the lowland European bison (Bison bonasus bonasus L.)

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beata Biernat ◽  
Grzegorz Karbowiak ◽  
Joanna Stańczak ◽  
Aleksander Masny ◽  
Joanna Werszko
Keyword(s):  
Dermacentor Reticulatus ◽  
Encephalitis Virus ◽  
Bison Bison ◽  
European Bison ◽  
Bison Bonasus ◽  
Primeval Forest ◽  
Hard Ticks ◽  
Tick Borne Encephalitis ◽  
Tick Borne Encephalitis Virus ◽  
Białowieża Primeval Forest

AbstractTick borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) (Flaviviridae, Flavivirus) is the causative agent of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), a potentially fatal neurological infection. The disease is endemic in a large region in Eurasia, where is transmitted mainly by hard ticks: Ixodes ricinus and I. persulcatus. It is known that also Dermacentor reticulatus is involved in a circulation of TBEV, but the knowledge of its importance in the TBE epidemiology is still insufficient. The Białowieża Primeval Forest is located in eastern Poland and it is a well-known endemic focus of tick-borne encephalitis. The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) in Dermacentor reticulatus ticks collected from European bison (Bison bonasus bonasus), an important host of hard ticks in the Białowieża Primeval Forest. In the years 2008-2009, a total of 114 adult D. reticulatus ticks were collected from 7 European bison and examined individually for the presence of TBEV RNA using nested RT-PCR assay. Positive results were noted in 18.42% of ticks. This is the first record of TBEV infection in ticks collected from European bison.

Stanisław Batys Gorski’s botanical research in the Białowieża Primeval Forest during the 1820s

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-336
Author(s):  
A. Ričkienė ◽  
P. Daszkiewicz ◽  
A. Fedotova ◽  
T. Samojlik
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Bison Bison ◽  
European Bison ◽  
Bison Bonasus ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Primeval Forest ◽  
Forage Plants ◽  
Vilnius University ◽  
Botanical Research ◽  
Białowieża Primeval Forest

The first scientific description of the flora of the Białowieża Primeval Forest (Puszcza Białowieska) was published in 1829 in Stanisław Batys Gorski’s paper “O roślinach żubrom upodobanych, jakoteż innych w puszczy Białowiezkiey [About preferred plants of the European bison and other plants from the Białowieża Primeval Forest]”. This publication comprised the first critical evaluation of the plant species present in the forest based on several field surveys during 1822, 1823 and 1826 by Gorski, and it dismissed the popular hypothesis that the European bison ( Bison bonasus) survived there because some of its preferred forage plants were exclusively found in the forest. To assess the importance of Gorski’s contribution to studies on the flora of the Białowieża Primeval Forest, we critically evaluated all his materials on the topic, including manuscripts, plant specimens collected by Gorski now preserved in Vilnius University Herbarium and his published works, and also traced all mentions and references to Gorski’s studies in later botanical works devoted to the Białowieża Primeval Forest.

scholarly journals VIROLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS OF FREE-LIVING EUROPEAN BISON (BISON BONASUS) FROM THE BIALOWIEZA PRIMEVAL FOREST, POLAND

2002 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Borchers ◽  
Jens Brackmann ◽  
Olaf Wolf ◽  
Michael Rudolph ◽  
Peter Glatzel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bison Bison ◽  
European Bison ◽  
Bison Bonasus ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Primeval Forest ◽  
Białowieża Primeval Forest

Pattern of parasite egg shedding by European bison (Bison bonasus) in the Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Kołodziej-Sobocińska ◽  
Anna M. Pyziel ◽  
Aleksander W. Demiaszkiewicz ◽  
Tomasz Borowik ◽  
Rafał Kowalczyk
Keyword(s):  
Bison Bison ◽  
European Bison ◽  
Bison Bonasus ◽  
Primeval Forest ◽  
Białowieża Primeval Forest

scholarly journals THE IDENTIFICATION OF «NEW» PATHOGENS FOR FOCAL INFECTIONS IN IXODES TICKS ON THE TERRITORY OF TULA REGION

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-177
Author(s):  
T. V. Kozlova ◽  
T. I. Khomyakova ◽  
V. G. Dedkov ◽  
M. V. Safonova ◽  
L. S. Karan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lyme Disease ◽  
Ixodes Ricinus ◽  
Mixed Infection ◽  
Dermacentor Reticulatus ◽  
Encephalitis Virus ◽  
Tick Borne Encephalitis ◽  
Ixodes Ticks ◽  
Pcr Method ◽  
Tick Borne Encephalitis Virus ◽  
Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis

The most of ixodes ticks in Tula region belongs to the group of pasture mites. It is generally accepted to estimate the tick’s contamination by the tick-borne encephalitis virus and raoueti inducing Lyme Borellia. The aim of the present work was to educe the aetiologic agents of the set of potentially-enable infections out of ticks Dermacentor reticulatus, Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes сrenulatus collected at the different terrains of Tula Region by PCR method. The results: a considerable number of pathogenic rickettsiae R. raoultii was educes from the ticks D. reticulatus, which including them as the component of mixed infection together with the human monocytic ehrlichiosis agent. R. raoultii was determined in more than a half of the cases in ticks I. ricinus including the mixed infection together with ticks’ borreliosis virus and Kemerovo fever agent. Conclusion. The reasons, induced the quantity changes of the ticks’ distribution at Tula Region terrains, apparently promote the rise in frequency of the ticks contamination with the agents of herd tick-transmissive infection. It demand an infectiologist’s attention rise and dictate the necessity of the above mentioned diseases monitoring as well as Fr. tularensis, the tick-borne encephalitis virus and Lyme disease.

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