Infection of newly identified phleboviruses in ticks and wild animals in Hokkaido, Japan indicating tick-borne life cycles

• Published in: Ticks and tick-borne diseases Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 328 - 335
• Main Authors: Torii, Shiho, Matsuno, Keita, Qiu, Yongjin, Mori-Kajihara, Akina, Kajihara, Masahiro, Nakao, Ryo, Nao, Naganori, Okazaki, Katsunori, Sashika, Mariko, Hiono, Takahiro, Okamatsu, Masatoshi, Sakoda, Yoshihiro, Ebihara, Hideki, Takada, Ayato, Sawa, Hirofumi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier GmbH 01.02.2019
• Subjects: blood serum; Cervus nippon; genes; infectious diseases; Ixodes persulcatus; Japan; mice; monitoring; neutralizing antibodies; pathogens; Phlebovirus; phylogeny; Procyon lotor; public health; risk; RNA; screening; tick-borne diseases; Tick-borne virus; ticks; tissues; viruses; wild animals; wildlife; Japan; Ixodes persulcatus; Tick-borne virus; Phlebovirus

Recent discoveries of tick-borne pathogens have raised public health concerns on tick-borne infectious diseases and emphasize the need to assess potential risks of unrecognized tick-borne pathogens. First, to determine the existence of tick-borne phleboviruses (TBPVs), genetic surveillance of phlebo...