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Alkhurma Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ornithodoros savignyi Ticks

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 assoc...

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Autores principales: Charrel, Rémi N., Fagbo, Shamsudeen, Moureau, Gregory, Alqahtani, Mohammad Hussain, Temmam, Sarah, de Lamballerie, Xavier
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2725816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17370534
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1301.061094