Alkhurma Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ornithodoros savignyi Ticks

Charrel, Rémi N.; Fagbo, Shamsudeen; Moureau, Gregory; Alqahtani, Mohammad Hussain; Temmam, Sarah; de Lamballerie, Xavier

doi:10.3201/eid1301.061094

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Alkhurma Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ornithodoros savignyi Ticks

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Jan 2007
By Charrel, Rémi N. ; Fagbo, Shamsudeen ; Moureau, Gregory ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Charrel, Rémi N. ; Fagbo, Shamsudeen ; Moureau, Gregory ; Alqahtani, Mohammad Hussain ; Temmam, Sarah ; de Lamballerie, Xavier
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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.
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Animals Arachnid Vectors Arbovirus Arthropodborne Biosafety Level 4 Camels Dispatch Flavivirus Flavivirus Infections Molecular Sequence Data Ornithodoros Phylogeny Saudi Arabia Tick
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Emerg Infect Dis. 13(1):153-155.
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Journal Article
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13
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1
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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