Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2007)

Alkhurma Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ornithodoros savignyi Ticks

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1301.061094
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 153 – 153

Abstract

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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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