Kemerovo tickborne viral fever
Kemerovo tickborne viral fever is an aparalytic febrile illness accompanied by meningism following tick-bite.[1] The causative agent is a zoonotic Orbivirus first described in 1963 in western Siberia by Mikhail Chumakov and coworkers.[2] The virus has some 23 serotypes, and can occur in coinfections with other Orbiviruses and tick-transmitted encephalitis viruses, complicating the course of illness.[3] Rodents and birds are the primary vertebrate hosts of the virus;[4] Ixodes persulcatus ticks are a vector of the virus.[5] Kemerovo and related viruses may be translocated distances in the environment by migratory birds.[6]
Kemerovo virus | |
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Virus classification | |
(unranked): | Virus |
Realm: | Riboviria |
Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
Phylum: | Duplornaviricota |
Class: | Resentoviricetes |
Order: | Reovirales |
Family: | Reoviridae |
Genus: | Orbivirus |
Species: | Great Island virus |
Virus: | Kemerovo virus |
References
- Hoogstraal H (August 1967). "Tickborne hemorrhagic fevers, encephalitis, and typhus in U.S.S.R. and Southern Asia". Exp. Parasitol. 21 (1): 98–111. doi:10.1016/0014-4894(67)90072-0. PMID 4867468.
- Chumakov MP, Saramanova ES, Bychkova MV, Bannova GG, Pivanova GP, Karpovich LG, Izotov VK, Rzhakhova OE (1963). "[Identification of the virus of Kemerovo tick-borne fever. Evidence of the antigenic independence of this virus]". Vopr. Virusol. (in Russian). 29: 440–4. PMID 14071281.
- Krauss, H. (2003). Zoonoses: Infectious Diseases Transmissible from Animals to Humans. p. 88. ISBN 1-55581-236-8.
- Mehlhorn, Heinz (2001-05-21). Encyclopedic Reference of Parasitology: Biology, Structure, Function. p. 555. ISBN 3540668195.
- Hoogstraal H (1966). "Ticks in relation to human diseases caused by viruses". Annu. Rev. Entomol. 11: 261–308. doi:10.1146/annurev.en.11.010166.001401. PMID 5321578.
- Hoogstraal H (1972). "Birds as tick hosts and as reservoirs and disseminators of tickborne infectious agents". Wiad Parazytol. 18 (4): 703–6. PMID 4660774.
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