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] During her career, she carried out classical studies of the foci of tick-borne spirochetosis, focusing on the morphology, taxonomic characteristics, and population ecology of the tick vectors.
[1] Her lectures in medical parasitology trained workers from outlying areas of the Soviet Union and tropical parasitologists sent to work in developing countries.
[1] During her career, Pospelova-Shtrom authored 94 scientific papers and four extensive monographs that made noteworthy contributions to the field of acarology.
[1] She was a colleague of many of the pioneering researchers of the era, including Y. N. Pavlovsky, V. N. Beklemishev, P. G. Sergeev, V. P. Pospelov, L. M. Isaev, B. I. Pomerantsev, Zh.