[An experimental study of the reproduction of the Hissar virus (Bunyaviridae) in Argas persicus ticks (Oken, 1918)]. / Eksperimental'noe izuchenie reproduktsii virusa Gissar (Bunyaviridae) v kleshchakh Argas persicus (Oken, 1918).

When in an experiment the ticks Argas persicus were infected with Hissar virus, virus reproduction in the arthropod was found. The transphasic and transovarial transmission of the virus in the ticks and the possibility of its transmission through the bite to synanthropic birds were proved.

[Isolation of the Issyk-Kul virus from blood-sucking biting flies Culicoides schultzei Enderlein in southern Tadzhikistan]. / Vydelenie virusa Issyk-Kul' ot krovososushchikh mokretsov Culicoides schultzei Enderlein v iuzhnom Tadzhikistane.

Reports the isolation of Issyk-Kul virus from bloodsucking Culicoides schultzei, collected in southern Tadjikistan for the first time.

[Outbreak of arbovirus infection in the Tadzhik SSR due to the Issyk-Kul virus (Issyk-Kul fever)]. / Vspyshka arbovirusnoi infektsii v Tadzhikskoi SSR, vyzvannoi virusom Issyk-Kul' (issyk-kul'skaia likhoradka).

An outbreak of the disease caused by Issyk-Kul virus was observed in March-August, 1982, in southern Tajikistan. The virus is ecologically associated with bats and Argasid ticks parasitising on them. The role of birds and mosquitoes in the virus ecology is discussed, and the data on the population immunity patterns to the virus among humans, domestic and wild animals in the Kirghiz SSR, the Tajik SSR, and the Turkmen SSR are analysed. The data on the distribution area of the causative agent in the Central Asia are presented.