1. Detection of novel tick-borne pathogen, Alongshan virus, in Ixodes ricinus ticks, south-eastern Finland, 2019
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Ilya Plyusnin, Teemu Smura, Tarja Sironen, Lev Levanov, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Fathiah Zakham, Lauri Kareinen, Anne J. Jääskeläinen, Jussi Hepojoki, Olli Vapalahti, Petra Emmerich, Suvi Kuivanen, University of Zurich, Kuivanen, Suvi, Viral Zoonosis Research Unit, Department of Virology, University of Helsinki, Veterinary Biosciences, Medicum, HUSLAB, Olli Pekka Vapalahti / Principal Investigator, Helsinki University Hospital Area, Helsinki One Health (HOH), and Emerging Infections Research Group
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Serum ,0301 basic medicine ,Epidemiology ,viruses ,Alongshan virus ,Ixodes ricinus ,Human pathogen ,flavivirus ,Tick borne ,Pathogen ,Finland ,Phylogeny ,1183 Plant biology, microbiology, virology ,biology ,Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction ,ALSV ,3. Good health ,Flavivirus ,RNA, Viral ,Sequence Analysis ,Rapid Communication ,Encephalitis, Tick-Borne ,Encephalitis ,Molecular Sequence Data ,030106 microbiology ,10184 Institute of Veterinary Pathology ,Tick ,Virus ,Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne ,03 medical and health sciences ,Virology ,parasitic diseases ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Base Sequence ,Ixodes ,Jingmen tick virus ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,2739 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,030104 developmental biology ,2406 Virology ,570 Life sciences ,3111 Biomedicine ,2713 Epidemiology - Abstract
The newly identified tick-borne Alongshan virus (ALSV), a segmented Jingmen virus group flavivirus, was recently associated with human disease in China. We report the detection of ALSV RNA in Ixodes ricinus ticks in south-eastern Finland. Screening of sera from patients suspected for tick-borne encephalitis for Jingmen tick virus-like virus RNA and antibodies revealed no human cases. The presence of ALSV in common European ticks warrants further investigations on its role as a human pathogen.
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