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Maria V. Pospelova-Shtrom, the Glossary

Maria Vladimirovna Pospelova-Shtrom (Мария Владимировна Поспелова-Штром) (1902–1991) was a 20th century parasitologist best known for her work delineating the biology and public health importance of ticks in western Asia and eastern Europe, contributing to the reduction of the incidence of tick-borne diseases, especially tick-borne relapsing fever.^[1]

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Russian entomologists
Soviet entomologists
Soviet parasitologists
Women parasitologists

Acarology

Acarology (from Ancient Greek /,, a type of mite; and, -logia) is the study of mites and ticks, the animals in the order Acarina.

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Anti-Soviet agitation

Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda (ASA) (антисове́тская агита́ция и пропага́нда (АСА)) was a criminal offence in the Soviet Union.

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Argasidae

The Argasidae are the family of soft ticks, one of the three families of ticks.

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Baikove Cemetery

Baikove Cemetery (Байкове кладовище) is a historic cemetery memorial in Holosiivskyi District of Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.

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Central Asia

Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.

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Central Russia

Central Russia is, broadly, the various areas in European Russia.

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Circumscription (taxonomy)

In biological taxonomy, circumscription is the content of a taxon, that is, the delimitation of which subordinate taxa are parts of that taxon.

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Disease outbreak

In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurrences of a disease when cases are in excess of normal expectancy for the location or season.

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Disease vector

In epidemiology, a disease vector is any living agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen such as a parasite or microbe, to another living organism.

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Doctor of Sciences

Doctor of Sciences (p, abbreviated д-р наук or д. н.; доктор наук; доктор на науките; доктар навук) is a higher doctoral degree in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and many post-Soviet countries, which may be earned after the Candidate of Sciences.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.

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Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.

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Epidemic

An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time.

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Evidence-based medicine

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.

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Experimental ecology

Experimental ecology is the scientific study of ecological relationships and processes using controlled experiments, mostly which focus on understanding how living organisms interact with their natural environment.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.

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Geomatics

Geomatics is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as the "discipline concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing, presentation of geographic data or geographic information".

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Great Purge

The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (translit), also known as the Year of '37 (label) and the Yezhovshchina (label), was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to consolidate power over the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Soviet state.

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Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae

Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae, Pospelova-Shtrom’s USSR mountain haemaphysalid, is an ixodid tick native to Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and the Republic of Georgia that parasitizes cattle and goats.

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Harry Hoogstraal

Harry Hoogstraal (born in Chicago, Illinois, February 24, 1917, died in Cairo, Egypt, on his 69th birthday, February 24, 1986) was an American entomologist and parasitologist.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Monograph

A monograph is a specialist written work (in contrast to reference works) or exhibition on one subject or one aspect of a usually scholarly subject, often by a single author or artist.

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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North-Western State Medical University

The North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov (NWSMU), until 2011 St.

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Ornithodoros

Ornithodoros is a genus in the soft-bodied tick family, Argasidae.

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Parasitology

Parasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them.

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Population ecology

Population ecology is a sub-field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment, such as birth and death rates, and by immigration and emigration.

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Postgraduate education

Postgraduate education, graduate education, or graduate school consists of academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications usually pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree.

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Propaganda

Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.

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Relapsing fever

Relapsing fever is a vector-borne disease caused by infection with certain bacteria in the genus Borrelia, which is transmitted through the bites of lice, soft-bodied ticks (genus Ornithodoros), or hard-bodied ticks (Genus Ixodes).

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance

Sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance, synonym epidemiological reconnaissance is a literal name of a concept and routine of finding out disease potential on a territory of arrival of major contingent.

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Scientific literature

Scientific literature encompasses a vast body of academic papers that spans various disciplines within the natural and social sciences.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Subject-matter expert

A subject-matter expert (SME) is a person who has accumulated great knowledge in a particular field or topic and this level of knowledge is demonstrated by the person's degree, licensure, and/or through years of professional experience with the subject.

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Systematic & Applied Acarology

Systematic & Applied Acarology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on mites and ticks published trianually by the Systematic & Applied Acarology Society.

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Taxonomy (biology)

In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

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Tehran

Tehran (تهران) or Teheran is the capital and largest city of Iran as well as the largest in Tehran Province.

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Thesis

A thesis (theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.

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Tick

Ticks are parasitic arachnids of the order Ixodida.

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Tick-borne disease

Tick-borne diseases, which afflict humans and other animals, are caused by infectious agents transmitted by tick bites.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.

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United States Department of Commerce

The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government concerned with creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity.

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Vladimir Beklemishev (zoologist)

Vladimir Nikolayevich Beklemishev (Владимир Николаевич Беклемишев;, Hrodna4 September 1962, Moscow) was a Russian zoologist and entomologist. Maria V. Pospelova-Shtrom and Vladimir Beklemishev (zoologist) are Russian entomologists and Soviet entomologists.

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Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit

The Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit ("WRBU") is a US Army organization that conducts laboratory and field research on the systematics of medically important arthropods in support of epidemiological investigations and disease prevention and control strategies of importance to the military.

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West Asia

West Asia, also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost region of Asia.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.

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Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration.

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Yevgeny Pavlovsky

Yevgeny Nikanorovich Pavlovsky (Евге́ний Никано́рович Павло́вский; 5 March 1884, Biryuch – 27 May 1965, Leningrad) was a Soviet zoologist, entomologist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1939), the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944), honorary member of the Tajik Academy of Sciences (1951), and a lieutenant general of the Red Army Medical Service in World War II. Maria V. Pospelova-Shtrom and Yevgeny Pavlovsky are Russian entomologists, Soviet entomologists and Soviet parasitologists.

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Zootaxa

Zootaxa is a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_V._Pospelova-Shtrom

, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, West Asia, World Health Organization, Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Pavlovsky, Zootaxa.

Maria V. Pospelova-Shtrom, the Glossary

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Russian entomologists

Soviet entomologists

Soviet parasitologists

Women parasitologists

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