Publications by authors named "Roman Buzinov"
Article Synopsis
- There has been a significant rise in tick bites among people in northern European Russia, coinciding with notable climate changes, like increased air temperatures.
- The study uses official statistics on human tick bites to analyze the impact of climate change on tick populations, which is challenging to study in the field due to the large area involved.
- An S-shaped relationship between the number of tick-bite victims and average annual air temperature, described by "Verhulst's law" (logistic function), indicates that tick population dynamics are influenced by temperature rather than time.
Background: The increase in tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) incidence is observed in recent decades in a number of subarctic countries. The reasons of it are widely discussed in scientific publications. The objective of this study was to understand if the climate change in Arkhangelsk Oblast (AO) situated in the north of European subarctic zone of Russia has real impact on the northward expansion of Ixodid ticks and stipulates the increase in TBE incidence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIxodes persulcatus Schultze ticks are traditionally associated with transmission of Lyme disease, babesiosis, and tick-borne encephalitis. Here we compared the prevalence of infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, and rickettsial and ehrlichial agents in I. persulcatus ticks collected in different locations of the North Western administrative region of Russia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIncidence of viral hepatitis B and vaccination in the Arkhangelsk region, Russian Federation.
Int J Circumpolar Health
March 2005
Introduction: Hepatitis B (HB) incidence in Russia decreased from 36.6 in 1997 to 19.8 per 100,000 population in 2002.
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