[Isolation of viruses of antigenic complexes of California encephalitis and Bunyamwera (Bunyaviridae, Bunuavirus) from mosquitoes in northeast Asia]. / Izoliatsiia virusov antigennykh kompleksov Kaliforniiskogo éntsefalita i bun'iamvera (Bunyaviridae, Bunuavirus) iz komarov na severo-vostoke aziatskogo kontinenta.

Studies in suckling mice and by direct solid-phase enzyme immunoassay were carried out with 111,1 thousand Aedes mosquitoes collected in July, 1986, in tundra, forest-tundra, and northern taiga of Kamchatka region and Chukotka autonomous district of Magadan region (North-Pacific natural area within 69 degrees-53 degrees North and 156 degrees-177 degrees East). Eleven strains were isolated of which 7 were classified as members of the California encephalitis complex (Tahyna-like strains) and 4 as members of the Bunyamwera complex (Batai-like strains). According to electron-microscopic studies of 2 strains (one from each antigenic complex), both were classified as belonging to the family of Bunyaviridae. Strains of both complexes were isolated in all landscape zones examined--tundra, forest-tundra, northern taiga. Virus-neutralizing antibodies to them were found in human and reindeer sera also in all the landscape zones, to Tahyna virus in 11%-61%, to Batain virus in 2%-6% blood specimens. No antibody to Uukuniemi virus was found.

[Occurrence of natural tularemia foci in Kamchatka]. / O prirodnoi ochagovosti tuliaremii na Kamchatke.

The focus of tularemia in the Ust-Kamchatsky region belongs probably to the flood-plain and swamp type with muskrats and tundra voles being the main carriers. In autumn 1980 for the first time three cultures were isolated in this region: 1 from a tundra vole and 2 from muskrats. The presence of antibodies to tularemia antigen in Norway rats was revealed in the passive hemagglutination test.

[Ectoparasites of small mammals, their nests and of the nests of birds in the floodplain of the Kamchatka River]. / Ektoparazity melkikh mlekopitaiushchikh, ikh gnezd i gnezd ptits v poime reki Kamchatki.

The paper presents data on the specific composition and abundance of bloodsucking arthropods parasitic on small mammals and birds in the valley of the Kamchatka river. One species of ixodids, I. lividus, 9 species of gamasids, P. crassipes, E. kraepelini, G. bispinosus, V. bujakova, H. casalis, H. mandschuricus, M. decoloratus, P. bujakovae, Macroheles sp., and one species of fleas, C. riparius, were first recorded from Kamchatka. 723 rodents were bacteriologically examined for tularemia with negative results.