KROK 1 2021 – Question 82 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
After a thorough examination, a man, who has returned to Ukraine from the Central Asia, was provisionally diagnosed with spring-summer encephalitis. In such cases, the causative agent is transmitted via the bites of a certain arthropod. Name this arthropod:
- A. Ixodes ricinus
- B. Ixodes persulcatus
- C. Ornithodorus papillipes
- D. Sarcoptes scabiei
- E. Phlebotominae
Hint
Several ixodid ticks carry this flavivirus; consider how their geographic ranges differ and which range matches the region where the man was infected.
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