[Quantitative assessment of the level of the causative agent of tick-borne rickettsiosis in a population of the main vector]. / Kolichestvennaia otsenka soderzhaniia vozbuditela kleshchevogo rikketsioza v populiatsii osnovnogo perenoschika.

It was first demonstrated that the method of individual titration of ticks from natural population, using animals sensitive to tick rickettsiosis agent, helps accurately estimate their infection level and define the level of infection of individual samples. It is shown that in natural focus of tick rickettsiosis infected hungry adult ixodes specimens differ in the quantity of rickettsia contained in them in different years. Possibility to estimate the size of the agent population connected with the imago of the major carrier is demonstrated.