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Case Reports
. 2024 Aug;71(5):578-583.
doi: 10.1111/zph.13130. Epub 2024 Apr 8.

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in questing non-Hyalomma spp. ticks in Northwest Spain, 2021

Raúl Cuadrado-Matías  1 , Alberto Moraga-Fernández  1 , Alfonso Peralbo-Moreno  1 , Ana Isabel Negredo  2   3 , María Paz Sánchez-Seco  2   3 , Francisco Ruiz-Fons  1   3
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Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in questing non-Hyalomma spp. ticks in Northwest Spain, 2021

Raúl Cuadrado-Matías et al. Zoonoses Public Health. 2024 Aug.

Abstract

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) unexpectedly emerged in humans in Northwest Spain in 2021, and two additional cases were reported in the region in 2022. The 2021 case was associated with a tick bite on the outskirts of the city where the patient lived. PCR analysis of 95 questing ticks collected in the outskirts of that city in 2021, none of the genus Hyalomma, revealed a prevalence of confirmed CCHF virus (CCHFV) infection of 10.5%. Our results in this emerging scenario suggest the need to consider that CCHFV may be effectively spreading to Northwest Spain and to urgently understand any possible role of non-Hyalomma spp. ticks in the eco-epidemiological dynamics of CCHFV.

Keywords: Dermacentor; Orthonairovirus; ecology; tick; zoonosis.

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