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Asian Biomedicine
Volume 10 (2016): Issue 6 (December 2016)
Open Access
Molecular epidemiology of Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in ticks collected from western Iran
Taher Mehran
Taher Mehran
,
Dayer Mohammad Saaid
Dayer Mohammad Saaid
,
Jalali Tahmineh
Jalali Tahmineh
,
Khakifirouz Sahar
Khakifirouz Sahar
,
Telmadarraiy Zakkyeh
Telmadarraiy Zakkyeh
and
Salehi-Vaziri Mostafa
Salehi-Vaziri Mostafa
| Mar 31, 2017
Asian Biomedicine
Volume 10 (2016): Issue 6 (December 2016)
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Brief communication (Original)
Published Online:
Mar 31, 2017
Page range:
603 - 607
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5372/1905-7415.1006.530
Keywords
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
,
Hamadan
,
Iran
,
molecular epidemiology
,
tick-borne diseases
,
zoonotic viral disease
© 2016 Taher Mehran, Dayer Mohammad Saaid, Jalali Tahmineh, Khakifirouz Sahar, Telmadarraiy Zakkyeh, Salehi-Vaziri Mostafa
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.
Figure 1
Agarose gel (1.5%) electrophoresis of amplified S segment DNA from the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus genome using reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction of RNA in tick samples from Hamadan province. Lad, 100 bp marker ladder; NC, negative control; PC, positive control (536 bp); lanes 2, 6, 8, and 10 positive tick samples
Rate of the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus infection in collected ticks
Tick species
Percent of 881 ticks
Reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction positive cases (Of 7 infected ticks in 100 randomly selected)
R. sanguineus
65.1%
4
R. bursa
29.0%
2
R. sp
0.9%
0
Hy. asiaticum
1.02%
1
Hy. anatolicum
1.6%
0
Hy. dromedarii
0.1%
0
Hy. marginatum
0.1%
0
Hy. schulzei
0.1%
0
Hy.sp
0.56%
0
Hae. sulcata
0.34%
0