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. 1983 May-Jun;17(3):214-7.

[Sexual transmission of the tick-borne encephalitis virus in ixodid ticks (Ixodidae)]

[Article in Russian]
S P Chunikhin, L F Stefuktina, M B Korolev, I A Reshetnikov, G A Khozinskaia
  • PMID: 6877862

[Sexual transmission of the tick-borne encephalitis virus in ixodid ticks (Ixodidae)]

[Article in Russian]
S P Chunikhin et al. Parazitologiia. 1983 May-Jun.

Abstract

Sexual transmission of tick-borne encephalitis virus from infected ixodid males to noninfected females is shown: in Ixodes persulcatus in 50% (6 of 12) and in Hyalomma anatolicum in 6.2% (1 of 16). The sexual transmission of tick-borne encephalitis virus is shown to provide a transmissible transfer of the virus into eggs in ixodid ticks. Electron microscope studies of the sexual system of ixodid males infected with the virus have revealed numerous morphologically mature virus particles in lumens of endoplasmic reticulum, in vacuoles of Golgi complex of spermatocytes and in association with tubular elements of spermatids.

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