A wide distribution of Beiji nairoviruses and related viruses in Ixodes ticks in Japan

• Published in: Ticks and tick-borne diseases Vol. 15; no. 6; p. 102380
• Main Authors: Kishimoto, Mai, Itakura, Yukari, Tabata, Koshiro, Komagome, Rika, Yamaguchi, Hiroki, Ogasawara, Kohei, Nakao, Ryo, Qiu, Yongjin, Sato, Kozue, Kawabata, Hiroki, Kajihara, Masahiro, Monma, Naota, Seto, Junji, Shigeno, Asako, Horie, Masayuki, Sasaki, Michihito, Hall, William W., Sawa, Hirofumi, Orba, Yasuko, Matsuno, Keita
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier GmbH 01.11.2024; Elsevier
• Subjects: altitude; Animals; Arbovirus; China; etiological agents; family; Genetic diversity; genome; Genome, Viral; genomics; Ixodes; Ixodes - virology; Japan; Japan - epidemiology; Nairoviridae; Nairovirus; Nairovirus - classification; Nairovirus - genetics; Nairovirus - isolation & purification; nucleotide sequences; Phylogeny; public health; Russia; Tick-borne diseases; zoonoses; Japan; China; Nairovirus; Genetic diversity; Arbovirus; Tick-borne diseases

Beiji nairovirus (BJNV), in the family Nairoviridae, the order Bunyavirales, was recently reported as a causative agent of an emerging tick-borne zoonotic infection in China. This study investigated the prevalence of BJNV in ticks in Japan. Screening of over 2,000 ticks from multiple regions reveale...