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Molecular epidemiology of Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in ticks collected from western Iran Cover

Molecular epidemiology of Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in ticks collected from western Iran

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|Mar 2017

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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
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 speciesPercent of 881 ticksReverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction positive cases (Of 7 infected ticks in 100 randomly selected)
R. sanguineus65.1%4
R. bursa29.0%2
R. sp0.9%0
Hy. asiaticum1.02%1
Hy. anatolicum1.6%0
Hy. dromedarii0.1%0
Hy. marginatum0.1%0
Hy. schulzei0.1%0
Hy.sp0.56%0
Hae. sulcata0.34%0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5372/1905-7415.1006.530 | Journal eISSN: 1875-855X | Journal ISSN: 1905-7415
Language: English
Page range: 603 - 607
Published on: Mar 31, 2017
Published by: Chulalongkorn University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 6 issues per year

© 2017 Taher Mehran, Dayer Mohammad Saaid, Jalali Tahmineh, Khakifirouz Sahar, Telmadarraiy Zakkyeh, Salehi-Vaziri Mostafa, published by Chulalongkorn University
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