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The authors emphasize the usefulness of parallel studies, based on monitoring the most important components of the parasitic systems of several nosologic forms, co-inhabiting the studied territories. Such studies will improve the informative value of the data and reveal the common regularities in the development of sympatric foci of zoonoses. The knowledge of such regularities will help develop ecologically safe methods for regulation of the foci and sanitization of the territory.

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Isolation of 47 strains of Tamdy virus (Bunyaviridae) in the Uzbek SSR, Turkmen SSR, Armenian SSR, Kazakh SSR, and Kirghiz SSR was analysed. Thirty-two strains were isolated from Hyalomma asiaticum ticks in which transovarial transmission of the virus was demonstrated. Three subspecies of H. asiaticum are associated with semi-desert and desert landscapes of the Asian continent. The association of Tamdy virus with hosts of various stages of metamorphosis of the ticks, in particular, with cattle and great gerbils is discussed.

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Three influenza A virus strains were isolated from shorebirds in October, 1977, in southern Turkmenia, in the vicinities of Tedzhen water reservoir. From a common tern, A/Sterna hirundo/Turkmenia/45/77 strain was isolated with the antigenic formula Hav6Neq2, from a teal and a black-headed gull influenza A/Anas crecca/Turkmenia/4/77 and A/Larus ridibundus/Turkmenia/13/77 strains with previously unknown combination of surface antigens Hswl(H0)Nav2 were recovered. By the molecular weight of the heavy (HA1 59,000 d) and light (HA2 24,000 d) chains of hemagglutinin, the Turkmenian viruses A/Larus ridibundus/Turkmenia/13/77 and A/Anas crecca/Turkmenia/4/77 are similar to each other and to the strains having H0 hemagglutinin: A/PR8/34 (H0N1) and A/Whale/PO/19/76 (H09Nav2). The Turkmenian viruses are characterized by a low content of the light hemagglutinin chain (HA2) which is typical of the viruses with Hsw1 hemagglutinin: A/New Jersey/8/76 (Hsw1N1) and A/SW/Wisk/68 (Hsw1N1).

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Five strains of hitherto unknown arbovirus designated Chim by the place of primary collection of ticks was isolated from Ixodid and Argasid ticks collected in the Uzbek SSR in burrows of great gerbils. The virus has no antigenic relationships with arboviruses previously isolated from ticks, its size varies from 100 to 220 nm, it contains RNA and has a lipid-containing envelope. Chim virus is pathogenic only for suckling mice by the intracerebral route and exerts cytopathic effect in continuous L, Rh, BHK cell lines.

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Three identical strains of an arbovirus were isolated from 475 Ornithodoros papillipes ticks collected in June, 1972, in burrows of the great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus Licht., 1882) in the environs of Beshkent, Karshinsk steppe, Uzbek S.S.R. The isolate was found to range among flaviviruses. Complement-fixation, agar diffusion precipitation and neutralization tests is tissue culture and mice indicated a one-way antigenic relationship between the isolate and West Nile virus. However, the pattern of differences between them made it possible to consider the isolated agent as a new virus, "Karshi" virus. The results of electron microscopic studies of this virus are presented.

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Eleven virus strains were isolated from ticks Hyalomma asiaticum asiaticum Schulce et Schlottke, 1929, and Hyalomma plumbeum plumbeum Panzer, 1796,collected in 1971-1974 in desert regions of the Uzbee S.S.R. and the Turkmen S.S.R. According to CF test the strains were closely related to each other and not antigenically connected with viruses from antigenic groups A, B, California, CHF-Congo, Bakau, Bunyamwera, Gajam, Kaisodi, Qalyub, Kemerovo, Quaranfil, Simbu, Turlock, Hughes, Uukuniemi, Tete and 21 ungrouped viruses isolated from ticks. The virus was named "Tamdy" after the place of isolation of a prototype strain LEIV-1308 Uz. The virus does not agglutinate goose erythrocytes, it is pathogenic for suckling mice and 3 weeks old mice by intracerebral infection. Replication of a virus with CPE in cell cultures--L, Rh, A1--and without CPE--in pig embryo kidney cell cultures--was demonstrated. According to ultrafiltration and electron microscope data the size of the virus is about 90 nm. It is rather sensitive to lipid solvents and is an RNA-virus. Morphologically the virus resembles the Bunyaviridae.

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During 1969--1974, 66,000 argasid and ixodid ticks from bird colonies in different parts of the USSR were studied. 247 strains of 8 different viruses were isolated. West Nile, Baku and Caspiy viruses were found from argasid ticks in the Caucasus and Middle Asia whereas ixodid ticks from seabird colonies in the North of the Far East and in the European part of the country yielded Tyuleniy, Zaliv Terpenya, Okhotskiy, Sakhalin and Paramushir viruses. The implications of the findings in the ecology of arboviruses is discussed.

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A strain of virus designated YaK-10 was isolated from Boophilus decoloratus ticks (10 specimens) collected in March 1971 from cattle pastured in savanna near Garoy (United Cameroun Republic) by the intracerebral inoculation of suckling mice at the Pasteur Institute in Cameroun. The results of investigations of the biological properties of the strain showed it to be pathogenic for 1-3-day-old suckling mice by the intracerebral and intraperitoneal routes, for 3-week-old mice by the intracerebral route and to be nonpathogenic for adult mice. The incubation period was 5-7 days. The virus multiplies in chick embryos producing death of the majority of eggs and in chick embryo fibroblast cultures with a weak cytopathic effect, and it is sensitive to ether and sodium deoxycholate, passes Millipore filters with pore diameter of 220 nm and has no hemagglutinating properties. Studies of the antigenic properties of the virus by CF and neutralization tests showed it to be identical with Dakar D-9540 VIRUS (Bhanja).

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