CLINICAL AND LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS OF INFECTIONS TRANSMITTED BY IXODES TICKS IN THE PERM KRAI
The etiological structure of infections transmitted by Ixodes ticks (ITIT) was established in 467 (out of 522) patients of the Perm Regional Hospital for Infectious Diseases with the help of Laboratory Techniques Set, which included ELISA, PCR and PHOSPHAN <sup>М</sup>. There was stated that ITIT occurs most frequently - 235 (45, 0%) patients, tick borne encephalitis (TBE) -more rarely: 54 (10.4%), human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) - 26 (5.0%) and human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) - 9 (1.7%). Various mixt-infections were detected in 143 patients (27.4%). In 55 patients (10.5%) the etiology of the disease remained to be unexplained. The clinical course of ITIT caused by genospecies B. afzelii and B. garinii is described.