Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus in Ornithodoros savignyi ticks.
Evidence for the tickborne nature of Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus (AHFV) is indirect because AHFV has not been detected in arthropods. One Ornithodoros savignyi tick from Saudi Arabia contained AHFV RNA. This is the first direct evidence that AHFV is a tickborne flavivirus and confirms the association between human AHFV cases and tickbite history.
Charrel
Rémi N
RN
Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France. remi.charrel@medecine.univ-mrs.fr
Fagbo
Shamsudeen
S
Moureau
Gregory
G
Alqahtani
Mohammad Hussain
MH
Temmam
Sarah
S
de Lamballerie
Xavier
X
D000818:Animals; D001096:Arachnid Vectors / Q000821:virology; D002162:Camelus; D005416:Flavivirus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018177:Flavivirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D026861:Ornithodoros / Q000821:virology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012529:Saudi Arabia / Q000453:epidemiology