Ticks in Tomsk

Ticks in Tomsk in 2019 will appear at the end of March. The peak of activity occurs in May, early June. Dangerous are all regions of the Tomsk region. The incidence rate for tick-borne encephalitis exceeds the national average by 5 times, borreliosis - 2 times. This year, about 14,000 victims of ticks, of which more than half the inhabitants of Tomsk. Annually tick-borne encephalitis about 90 people become infected borreliosis – 130.

Territory Processing

A third of those affected by tick bites - residents of Tomsk. The most dangerous are the regions adjacent to the forests. The Irkutsk tract, Anikino, Loskutovo, Akademgorodok, Timiryazevo are at risk. According to 2018 data, a large half of those infected with encephalitis received bites while visiting Michurinsky sites, forests.

Every year, due to budgetary funds, the processing of territories from ticks in the amount of 672 hectares is carried out. Be sure to undergo pest control:

• squares along the street of the 5th Army, Mokrushin;
• park areas;
• cemeteries;
• territory of children's camps;
• territories of the villages of April, Geologists, Spacious;
• Polytechnic stadium.

Grass is regularly mowed, foliage is cleaned.

On a note!

Private tick treatment carried out at their own expense. Pest control is carried out independently or attract specialists.

What should I do if bitten by a tick

If a parasite is detected you need to contact the doctors to extract it. Residents of the Tomsk region are encouraged to go to the emergency rooms of regional hospitals. The following institutions provide services in Tomsk:

• Interuniversity hospital, Kievskaya 74, tel. 55-71-37;
• Medical unit number 2, st. Bela Kuna, 3, phone: 64-78-62;
• Children's Hospital №1, st. Moscow tract 4, tel. 52-72-23.

Departments work around the clock, the extraction procedure is free. Persons with a health insurance policy must contact the address indicated in the document. Help is free. You can get insurance in the clinics of the city:

• Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk, Lenina, 4;
• Medical and Sanitary Unit "Builder", Tomsk, Altai, 159;
• NPO Virion, Tomsk, Lenina, 32;
• Children's Hospital No. 1, Tomsk, Moscow Tract, 4;
• MO "Health", Tomsk, Kotovsky, 19;
• Medical unit No. 3, Tomsk, Kievskaya, 74;
• Interuniversity polyclinic, Tomsk, Kiev, 74;
• Public association "LDC", Tomsk, Kirova, 58;
• Family Medicine Center, Tomsk, polyclinics No. 2, 3, 6, 7, 8;
• District hospitals of the Tomsk region.

A hotline for all questions regarding tick bites works around the clock. +7 (3822) 516-616 (free for residents of Tomsk, 8 800 350 88 50 - free for residents of the Tomsk region.

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If there is no medical facility nearby, remove the tick by themselves using tweezers, threads, syringe, special fixture, other improvised tools.

Where to pass the tick for analysis

Information is updated annually on the official website of Rospotrebnadzor. In 2018 tick research The following institutions were involved:

• Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Tomsk Region, Tomsk, Elizarov, 42, +7 (3822) 54–09–27
• Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Tomsk Region, Tomsk, Rosa Luxemburg, 13a, +7 (3822) 53–45–78
• Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in Tomsk Region, Tomsk, Lenina Avenue, 191, +7 (3822) 40–72–95, +7 (3822) 40–69–61
• Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Tomsk Region, Tomsk, Frunze Ave., 103a, +7 (3822) 44–47–31.

You can apply for a tick bite in Tomsk to private clinics.There they will remove the parasite, conduct research, consult, do blood analysiswill introduce immunoglobulin. One of these clinics is the Santal Medical Center, (3822) 90-03-03.

Tick-borne encephalitis price list:

• Consultation of a family doctor: general practitioner’s clinic (family doctor - 538.00. Repeated appointment of a general practitioner (family doctor) - 789.00. Preventive medicine of a general practitioner (family doctor) - 538.00. Initial consultation of a general practitioner (family doctor) - 855.00 .
• Consultation of an infectious disease doctor: Preventive visit of an infectious disease doctor - 538.00. Dispensary admission for an infectious disease doctor - 538.00.
• Neurologist consultation: Dispensary of a neurologist - 597.00. A second appointment with a neurologist - 1010.00. Primary neurologist appointment - 1407.00. Preventive visit to a neurologist - 652.00.
• Procedures and manipulations: Intramuscular injection of human immunoglobulin against tick-borne encephalitis (titer of at least 1: 160) 2 ml - 1568.00. Removing a sticky tick and its residues from bite treatment - 80.00. Emergency prevention of tick-borne borreliosis, scheme No. 3 (Bicillin 5, vm) - 132.00. Intramuscular administration of drugs (without the cost of drugs) - 104.00.
• PCR diagnosis of tick-borne infections. Comprehensive diagnostics for 4 infections: TBEV, Lyme disease, monocytic ehrlichiosis and granulocytic anaplasmosis - (blood or tick) 1502.00. MBI to TBE, to Borrelia, to Ehrlichia (GACH, MECH) (tick) - 1591.00. MBI on ehrlichia (GACH, MECH) (blood or tick) - 795.00. Detection of RNA of TBEV (tick-borne encephalitis virus, borreliosis) (blood or tick) - 723.00.
• ELISA diagnosis of tick-borne infections: Determination of TBEV antigen. Determination of antibodies of classes M and G (IgM, IgG) to TBEV - 956.00. Tick-borne encephalitis virus by ELISA (blood) - 380.00. Determination of antibodies to class G borrelia (IgG) by ELISA (blood) - 572.00. Determination of antibodies to tick-borne encephalitis virus class M (IgM) by ELISA - (blood) - 399.00.

In 2019, the price may change.

Tick-borne encephalitis vaccine in Tomsk

Do vaccination possible at any time of the year. Immunity is developed 2 weeks after the second vaccine. The entire course consists of 3 injections. The second is administered after 14-30 days, the third - after 1 year. The immunity lasts for 1 year.

In the points of seroprophylaxis in the Tomsk region, vaccines are purchased at the expense of budgetary funds. Replenished year-round for 2000 doses. Immunoglobulin injection is administered free of charge for 3 days after a tick bite. Hospitals in Tomsk Oblast purchase vaccines against tick-borne encephalitis. In 2018, the indicator was 46 806 doses, of which half were children.

Also, a tick vaccine can be delivered in private clinics for a fee.

• Tick-borne encephalitis vaccination - 1064.00
• Vaccines Tick-E-Wak (Russia) - 1088.00
• FSME-Immun (Baxter. Austria) - 1070.00
• FSME-Immun Junior (Baxter. Austria) - 992.00
• ENTSEVIR (Microgen Virion, Russia) - 1015.00
• ENCEPUR children. (Novartis Consumer Health, Germany) - 1070.00.

Places to contact:

• Seroprophylaxis point, Virion, research and production association, a branch of FSUE NPO Mikrogen. Lenin Avenue, 32, +7 (3822) 90-58-97
• Diagnostic and treatment center, LLC, point of seroprophylaxis. Kirova avenue, 58 st47, +7 (3822) 54-54-45
• Medical unit No. 3, LLC, a point of seroprophylaxis. Pushkina, 69, +7 (3822) 66-06-03
• Seroprophylaxis Point, Health Unit No. 2. Bela Kuna, 3, +7 (3822) 64-78-62
• Seroprophylaxis point, Builder, medical unit, Altayskaya, 159a, +7 (3822) 45-28-39
• Seroprophylaxis Center, Inter-University Hospital Kiev, 74, +7 (3822) 55-71-37
• Center for Family Medicine, Trifonova, 22b +7 (3822) 34-29-50.

The vaccine protects against tick-borne encephalitis by 95%. Among those infected in 2018, there are no vaccinees.