Isolation and characterization of Tarumizu tick virus: A new coltivirus from Haemaphysalis flava ticks in Japan

• Published in: Virus research Vol. 242; pp. 131 - 140
• Main Authors: Fujita, Ryosuke, Ejiri, Hiroko, Lim, Chang-Kweng, Noda, Shinichi, Yamauchi, Takeo, Watanabe, Mamoru, Kobayashi, Daisuke, Takayama-Ito, Mutsuyo, Murota, Katsunori, Posadas-Herrera, Guillermo, Minami, Shohei, Kuwata, Ryusei, Yamaguchi, Yukie, Horiya, Madoka, Katayama, Yukie, Shimoda, Hiroshi, Saijo, Masayuki, Maeda, Ken, Mizutani, Tetsuya, Isawa, Haruhiko, Sawabe, Kyoko
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 15.10.2017
• Subjects: Arbovirus; Colorado tick fever virus; Coltivirus; cytopathogenicity; double-stranded RNA; electron microscopy; evolution; Eyach virus; genetic variation; Haemaphysalis; Haemaphysalis flava; Japan; mice; monitoring; Reoviridae; sequence homology; stop codon; Tick-borne viruses; ticks; viral inclusion bodies; viral proteins; viruses; Whole-genome analysis; Japan; Coltivirus; Arbovirus; Haemaphysalis flava; Whole-genome analysis; Reoviridae; Tick-borne viruses

•The third member of the Coltivirus genus was found in ticks in Japan.•The new coltivirus was designated as Tarumizu tick virus (TarTV).•Three isolates of TarTV were molecularly characterized. During the course of tick-borne virus surveillance in Japan, three independent isolates of probably the sam...