Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2019)

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Genome in Tick from Migratory Bird, Italy

  • Elisa Mancuso,
  • Luciano Toma,
  • Andrea Polci,
  • Silvio G. d’Alessio,
  • Marco Di Luca,
  • Massimiliano Orsini,
  • Marco Di Domenico,
  • Maurilia Marcacci,
  • Giuseppe Mancini,
  • Fernando Spina,
  • Maria Goffredo,
  • Federica Monaco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2507.181345
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 7
pp. 1418 – 1420

Abstract

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We detected Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in a Hyalomma rufipes nymph collected from a whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) on the island of Ventotene in April 2017. Partial genome sequences suggest the virus originated in Africa. Detection of the genome of this virus in Italy confirms its potential dispersion through migratory birds.

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