Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in ticks in Turkey: A broad range tick surveillance study

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue , 2017, Pages 59-66

  Orkun, Ömer ^a   Karaer, Zafer ^a   Çakmak, Ayşe ^a   Nalbantoğlu, Serpil ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

CCHF; Ecology; Hare; Host seeking ticks; Molecular epidemiology; Tick borne diseases; Wild boar

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; DERMACENTOR MARGINATUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HAEMAPHYSALIS PARVA; HUMAN; HYALOMMA; HYALOMMA EXCAVATUM; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; TICK; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DISEASE CARRIER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOSYSTEM; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TICKS; TURKEY;

EID: 85018320794     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2017.04.017     Document Type: Article

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