| variability of the tick-borne encephalitis virus genome in the 5' noncoding region derived from ticks ixodes persulcatus and ixodes pavlovskyi in western siberia. | we report the prevalence of siberian and far eastern subtypes of tick-borne encephalitis virus (tbev) in ixodes persulcatus and ix. pavlovskyi ticks collected in tomsk and its suburbs during 2006-2008. the tbev was detected in 5.7% ticks collected in the city, where ix. pavlovskyi ticks were dominated and 7.5% ticks from suburban foci with prevalence ix. persulcatus ticks. genotyping of the virus showed that siberian subtype (89.5%) is predominant in individual ticks of tomsk suburbs; however, t ... | 2010 | 19877811 |