A group of specialists from Tyumen, in a publication in the Persian Journal of Acarology, described three new types of ticks that are carriers of a number of diseases potentially dangerous to humans, including plague. Scientists say that the newly discovered species of ticks are most widespread in Siberia, as well as in Mongolia, RIA Novosti reports.
During the research, scientists determined that these parasites belong to the families Spinturnicidae And Macronyssidae. Experts warn that the former are carriers of bartonellosis, and the second family is even more dangerous, as it carries many deadly ailments, ranging from tick-borne encephalitis to plague.
One of the individuals of the new species of ticks was obtained back in 2020 from bats from the collection of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, and the other studied ticks, as scientists noted, they collected on the territory of Buryatia and Tuva from representatives of the bat order that were caught and subsequently released into the wild.
Source: Rosbalt
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