A new strain of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus isolated from Xinjiang, China

• Published in: Virologica Sinica Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 80 - 88
• Main Authors: Guo, Rong, Shen, Shu, Zhang, Yanfang, Shi, Junming, Su, Zhengyuan, Liu, Dan, Liu, Jinliang, Yang, Juan, Wang, Qiguo, Hu, Zhihong, Zhang, Yujiang, Deng, Fei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Singapore 01.02.2017; KeAi Publishing Communications Ltd
• Subjects: Animals; Animals, Newborn; Antigens; Antigens, Viral - analysis; basins; Biochemistry; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; China; Cluster Analysis; Crimean hemorrhagic fever; Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever orthonairovirus; disease prevention; Epidemics; Genotype; Genotypes; Hemorrhage; Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Crimean-Congo - classification; Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Crimean-Congo - isolation & purification; Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Crimean-Congo - physiology; Hyalomma asiaticum; Infections; Ixodidae - virology; Medical Microbiology; Mice, Inbred BALB C; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; mortality; neonates; Oncology; Outbreaks; Phylogeny; Research Article; Ribonucleic acid; RNA; RNA, Viral - genetics; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Sequence Homology; Viral Tropism; Virology; Virus Replication; viruses; China; Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV); phylogenetic analysis; newborn mice; genotype

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus （CCHFV） is a highly pathogenic tick-borne virus with a fatality rate of up to 50% in humans. CCHFV is widely distributed in countries around the world. Outbreaks of CCHFV infection in humans have occurred in prior years in Xinjiang Province, China. Epidemiologic...