title: Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus in Ornithodoros savignyi ticks.
abstract: 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.
authors: Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France. remi.charrel@medecine.univ-mrs.fr
authors: Rémi N
authors: RN
authors: Charrel
authors: Shamsudeen
authors: S
authors: Fagbo
authors: Gregory
authors: G
authors: Moureau
authors: Mohammad Hussain
authors: MH
authors: Alqahtani
authors: Sarah
authors: S
authors: Temmam
authors: Xavier
authors: X
authors: de Lamballerie
mesh_terms: 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