Maria V. Pospelova-Shtrom

Maria Vladimirovna Pospelova-Shtrom (; 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.

Career

After earning her Doctor of Biological Sciences degree, Pospelova-Shtrom rose to the position of head of the tick laboratory in the department of medical entomology at the Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine. After graduating from the Leningrad Medical Institute, he worked in the Department of Parasitology at the Bacteriological Institute Pasteur in Leningrad, was head of the Department of Geomatology of the Department of Medical Parasitology at the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine, and the All-Union Institute of Helminthology as head of the Central Helminthological Museum. In 1941 during the Stalinist repressions, he was arrested and charged with anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, and died on March 12, 1942, in Prison No. 1 in Sverdlovsk. In 1956, he was exonerated by the Moscow city prosecutor.

Ticks originally circumscribed by Pospelova-Shtrom

Argas beklemischevi, Pospelova-Shtrom, Vasil'yeva & Semashko, 1963 Haemaphysalis erinacei turanica, Pospelova-Shtrom, 1940

Tick named in Pospelova-Shtrom's honor

Haemaphysalis pospelovashtromae, Hoogstraal, 1966