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. 2019 Nov;24(47):1900658.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.47.1900658.

Detection of new endemic focus of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), Hampshire/Dorset border, England, September 2019

Maya Holding  1   2   3 , Stuart D Dowall  1   2 , Jolyon M Medlock  1   3 , Daniel P Carter  1   4 , Liz McGinley  1   3 , Mollie Curran-French  2 , Steven T Pullan  4 , John Chamberlain  2 , Kayleigh M Hansford  1   3 , Matthew Baylis  1   5 , Richard Vipond  1   2 , Roger Hewson  1   2
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Detection of new endemic focus of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), Hampshire/Dorset border, England, September 2019

Maya Holding et al. Euro Surveill. 2019 Nov.

Abstract

The presence of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) was detected in a questing tick pool in southern England in September 2019. Hitherto, TBEV had only been detected in a limited area in eastern England. This southern English viral genome sequence is distinct from TBEV-UK, being most similar to TBEV-NL. The new location of TBEV presence highlights that the diagnosis of tick-borne encephalitis should be considered in encephalitic patients in areas of the United Kingdom outside eastern England.

Keywords: Ixodes ricinus; encephalitis; flavivirus; tick-borne virus; vector-borne infections; zoonoses.

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Figure 1
Number of deer samples tested for exposure to tick-borne encephalitis virus serocomplexa and relative percentage of positives, eastern, southern and central England, February 2018–January 2019
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Figure 2
Phylogenetic relationship of contemporary strains of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) and TBEV-UK Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, 2019
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