Results of Ixodes Tick-Borne Borreliosis Monitoring in Crimea in 2015–2021
Journal: ЗДОРОВЬЕ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ И СРЕДА ОБИТАНИЯ - ЗНиСО / PUBLIC HEALTH AND LIFE ENVIRONMENT
Year: 2022

Introduction: The studies of borreliosis and the official disease registration in Crimea began in the year 2000. An obvious increase in the number of human cases of Ixodes tick-borne borreliosis has been observed since then: 204 cases of Lyme disease were registered in Crimea in 2000–2014 and already 324 cases in the years 2015–2021. Objective: To specify reservoirs, vectors and boundaries of natural foci of tick-borne borreliosis in Crimea based on the results of research conducted in 2015–2021