<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hubalek, Z.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cerny, Vladimir</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mittermayer, T.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kilik, J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Halouzka, J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Juricova, Z.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kuhn, I.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bardos, V.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Arbovirological survey in Silica plateau area, Roznava District, Czechoslovakia</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Hygiene, Epidemiology, Microbiology, and Immunology</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Animals; Antibodies</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Inbred ICR; Middle Ag</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Viral/analysis; Arboviruses/immunology/isolation &amp; purification; Cattle; Child; Czechoslovakia; Goats; Hemagglutination; Humans; Lice/microbiology; Mice; Mice</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1986</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">30</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">87-98</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The serosurveys conducted in the Silica plateau area of the Slovak karst region revealed the presence of specific neutralizing antibody against tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus in 18% of local inhabitants (33 examined, mostly goats and sheep farmers), 54% of goats (26 examined), 18% of sheep (120 examined) and 13% of cattle (60 examined), against Lipovnik (LIP) virus in 30% of inhabitants, 88% of goats, 55% of sheep and 45% of cattle, and against Bhanja (BHA) virus in 27% of inhabitants, 46% of goats, 29% of sheep and 23% of cattle. The results of hemagglutination-inhibition tests with TBE and BHA antigens were analogous. A detailed analysis of these serologic data points to a recent enhancement of the circulation of LIP and BHA viruses and to a very low TBE virus activity in this natural focus of arboviral infections. The immunological surveys of the 32 former &quot;Roznava disease&quot; patients, conducted 25 years after an extensive epidemic of a TBE virus infection that originated in Roznava in 1951, revealed the presence of neutralizing (and also hemagglutination-inhibiting) antibodies against TBE virus in as many as 78% of cases. Antibodies against LIP and BHA viruses were also detectable in the sera of 16% and 9%, respectively, of these individuals. Populations of the ectoparasites examined for the presence of arbovirus comprised 231 Ixodes ricinus, 806 Dermacentor marginatus and 204 Haemaphysalis punctata ticks and 117 specimens of the louse-flies Melophagus ovinus. Two strains of arbivirus that were antigenically related to Lipovnik and Tribec viruses belonging to a group of Kemerovo viruses were isolated from male and female I. ricinus ticks collected from cattle.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">45453</style></accession-num><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">LR: 20041117; JID: 2985116R; 0 (Antibodies, Viral); ppublish0022-1732Journal</style></notes></record></records></xml>