KROK 1 2021 – Question 37 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
After examination, a man who lived in the Ural region, was diagnosed with taiga encephalitis. The causative agent of this disease could have been transmitted to the patient via a bite of:
- A. Stomoxys calcitrans
- B. Phlebotomus papatasii
- C. Ixodes ricinus
- D. Ornithodoros papillipes
- E. Ixodes persulcatus
Hint
Think about which ixodid tick species are vectors of this virus and how their geographic ranges differ, then compare the patient's region with those ranges.
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