[An experimental study of the reproduction of the Hissar virus (Bunyaviridae) in Argas persicus ticks (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].

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