Maria V. Pospelova-Shtrom

Maria V. Pospelova-Shtrom
Born(1902-01-03)3 January 1902
Russian Empire
Died1 January 1991(1991-01-01) (aged 88)
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Scientific career
InstitutionsInstitute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Moscow

Maria Vladimirovna Pospelova-Shtrom (Russian: 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][2][3]

  1. ^ "Maria Pospelova-Shtrom". timenote.info (in Latvian). Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  2. ^ Pospelova-Shtrom, M. V. (1962). Ornithodorini Ticks and Their Epidemiological Significance. U. S. Department of Commerce, Office of Technical Services, Joint Publications Research Service.
  3. ^ Мария Владимировна Поспелова-Штром [Maria Vladimirovna Pospelova-Shtrom]: Памятные встречи моей жизни [Memorable Meetings of My Life]. KMK Scientific Press Ltd., 2002, 140 pp., photos. ISBN 5-87317-119-X. Described as "The book of memoirs of the famous Soviet zoologist, parasitologist Maria Vladimirovna Pospelova-Shtrom (1902-1991) covers the period from the 1920s to the 1950s. Biographical sketches of zoologists and parasitologists are given, E.N. Pavlovsky; V.N. Beklemishev; P.G. Sergeev; V.P. Pospelov; L.M. Isaev; B.I. Pomerantsev; Zh.K. Shtrom; geobotanist L.N. Tyulin and many others."