First Isolation of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus from Haemaphysalis longicornis Ticks Collected in Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Outbreak Areas in the Republic of Korea | Zendy

SeokMin Yun | Zendy; Bong Gu Song | Zendy; Wooyoung Choi | Zendy; Jong Yul Roh | Zendy; Ye-Ji Lee | Zendy; Won Il Park | Zendy; Myung Guk Han | Zendy; Young Ran Ju | Zendy; Won-Ja Lee | Zendy

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First Isolation of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus from Haemaphysalis longicornis Ticks Collected in Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Outbreak Areas in the Republic of Korea

Author(s) -

SeokMin Yun,

Bong Gu Song,

Wooyoung Choi,

Jong Yul Roh,

Ye-Ji Lee,

Won Il Park,

Myung Guk Han,

Young Ran Ju,

Won-Ja Lee

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

vector-borne and zoonotic diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.839

H-Index - 73

eISSN - 1557-7759

pISSN - 1530-3667

DOI - 10.1089/vbz.2015.1832

Subject(s) - severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome , haemaphysalis longicornis , phlebovirus , outbreak , virology , tick , biology , emerging infectious disease , orthobunyavirus , ixodidae , bunyaviridae , virus

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging tick-borne infectious disease that is endemic to China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (ROK). In this study, 8313 ticks collected from SFTS outbreak areas in the ROK in 2013 were used to detect the SFTS virus (SFTSV). A single SFTSV was isolated in cell culture from one pool of Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks collected from Samcheok-si, Gangwon Province, in the ROK. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the SFTSV isolate was clustered with the SFTSV strain from Japan, which was isolated from humans. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first isolation in the world of SFTSV in ticks collected from vegetation.

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