Affiliation:
1. Department of Virology
2. Department of Parasitology, College of Veterinary Medicine
3. Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Medical Faculty, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is a tick-borne virus in the family
Bunyaviridae
, genus
Nairovirus
. The virus is transmitted to humans through infected tick bites or from direct contact with viremic animals or humans. In the present study, a total of 1,015 adult ticks were collected from cattle (603 specimens), sheep (17 specimens), and goats (395 specimens) in the Kelkit Valley in Turkey. Four tick species were recognized on the animals in the surveyed region. The most abundant species were
Rhipicephalus bursa
and
Hyalomma marginatum marginatum
, at 47.68% (484/1,015) and 46.40% (471/1,015), respectively. Reverse transcriptase PCR was used to recover partial sequences of the CCHFV small (S) genome segment. The presence of CCHFV was determined in 3 of 33 (9.09%)
R. bursa
pools and in 1 of 31 (3.22%)
H. m. marginatum
pools. Virus sequences from
R. bursa
were extremely different from those of the Greek CCHFV strain (U04958) isolated from an
R. bursa
tick. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the CCHFV isolates obtained in this study clustered in group 5, whose range encompasses southwestern Russian and Kosovo. This is the first evidence of CCHFV in ticks from Turkey. Even though
Hyalomma
is the main vector for CCHFV,
R. bursa
may play a role in CCHFV transmission.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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