[The protection of vertebrate animals from experimental tick-borne encephalitis with active and passive immunization against tick antigens].

The active and passive immunization of laboratory animals against Ixodes antigens has been experimentally shown to lead to the development of their resistance to homologous Arthropoda species and a change in the intensity of the circulation of tick-borne encephalitis virus between carriers and their hosts. The immunization of vertebrates with Ixodes antigens may supposedly lead to a decrease in the number of bloodsucking arthropods-carriers of the causative agents of infectious diseases-and protect animals from infections whose causative agents are transmitted by Ixodes ticks.