SMALL MAMMALS AND THEIR ECTOPARASITES (IXODIDAE) ON THE FLOODPLAIN OF THE MIDDLE OBAND CROSS-BORDER REGIONS
The work was completed in 2016 (May, June, July, September) in the vicinity of the Nizhnevartovsk city (the floodplain of the Ob River and the mainland). Small mammals were caught in order to determine the state of populations of rodents and insectivores, their role in maintaining tularemia infection; to detect species composition of ixodic ticks, involved in the bearing, circulation and transmission of the causative agent of tularemia Francisella tularensis. Through the study of parasitic arthropods in the vicinity of the Nizhnevartovsk city, 63 individuals of ixodic ticks (at different stages of development - larvae, nymphs) of two species are considered: Ixodes persulcatus and I. apronophorus.