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. 2014 Aug;20(8):1358-61.
doi: 10.3201/eid2008.131857.

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in ticks collected from humans, South Korea, 2013

Seok-Min Yun, Wook-Gyo Lee, Jungsang Ryou, Sung-Chan Yang, Sun-Whan Park, Jong Yeol Roh, Ye-Ji Lee, Chan Park, Myung Guk Han

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in ticks collected from humans, South Korea, 2013

Seok-Min Yun et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2014 Aug.

Abstract

We investigated the infection rate for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) among ticks collected from humans during May-October 2013 in South Korea. Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks have been considered the SFTSV vector. However, we detected the virus in H. longicornis, Amblyomma testudinarium, and Ixodes nipponensis ticks, indicating additional potential SFTSV vectors.

Keywords: Amblyomma testudinarium; Bunyaviridae; Haemaphysalis longicornis; Ixodes nipponensis; Phlebovirus; Rhipicephalus microplus; SFTS; SFTSV; South Korea; humans; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus; tick-borne; tickborne; ticks; vector; viruses.

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Phylogenetic analysis of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome viruses based on the partial medium segment sequences (560 bp). The tree was constructed by using the neighbor-joining method based on the p-distance model in MEGA5 (12) (5,000 bootstrap replicates). Uukuniemi virus was used as the outgroup. Scale bar indicates the nucleotide substitutions per position. Among the 17 South Korean strains identified in this study, the Korean strains detected from Haemaphysalis longicornis, Amblyomma testudinarium, and Ixodes nipponensis ticks are marked with open circles, squares, and triangles, respectively. Numbers at nodes indicate bootstrap values.
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