Historicalcollection of ticks(Acari: Argasidae) fromIranandotherregionsofcentralAsia(Museogenomicsresearch)

Solovev, Aleksei; Uskov, Alexandr; Bondarenko, Yevgeny; Rakin, Alexandr; Kravtsov, Vyatheslav

doi:10.22073/pja.v8i2.47978

Historicalcollection of ticks(Acari: Argasidae) fromIranandotherregionsofcentralAsia(Museogenomicsresearch)

Authors

Aleksei Solovev ¹^{, 2}

Alexandr Uskov ¹^{, 2}

Yevgeny Bondarenko ³

Alexandr Rakin ⁴

Vyatheslav Kravtsov ⁴

¹ Department of Biologyand Parasitology, Military Medical Academy, Saint Petersburg, Russia; E-mails: solopiter@gmail.com, aouskov@gmail.com, rakinalex@gmail.com, kvyspb@mail.ru

² Pediatric Research and Clinical Center for Infectious Diseases, Saint Petersburg, Russia

³ «Vector-Best», Novosibirsk, Russia; E-mail: ebondarenko@ngs.ru

⁴ Department of Biology and Parasitology, Military Medical Academy, Saint Petersburg, Russia; E-mails: solopiter@ gmail.com, aouskov@gmail.com, rakinalex@gmail.com, kvyspb@mail.ru

10.22073/pja.v8i2.47978

Abstract

Herein, historical collection of ticks (Acari: Argasidae), which were collected by E. Pavlovsky of parasitological expeditions to Central Asia (1934-1955), are reported.

Keywords

Argasidae

Museogenomics research

Real-time polymerase chain reaction

tick-born relapsing fever

ticks collection