Abstract
The newly identified tick-borne Alongshan virus (ALSV), a segmented Jingmen virus group flavivirus, was recently associated with human disease in China. We report the detection of ALSV RNA in Ixodes ricinus ticks in south-eastern Finland. Screening of sera from patients suspected for tick-borne encephalitis for Jingmen tick virus-like virus RNA and antibodies revealed no human cases. The presence of ALSV in common European ticks warrants further investigations on its role as a human pathogen.
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Kuivanen, S., Levanov, L., Kareinen, L., Sironen, T., Jääskeläinen, A. J., Plyusnin, I., … Vapalahti, O. (2019). Detection of novel tick-borne pathogen, alongshan virus, in Ixodes ricinus ticks, south-eastern Finland, 2019. Eurosurveillance, 24(27). https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.27.1900394
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