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Detection of Jingmen tick virus in human patient specimens: Emergence of a new tick-borne human disease?

2019; Elsevier BV; Volume: 43; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.04.034

2352-3964

Satoshi Taniguchi,

Vector-Borne Animal Diseases

Jingmen tick virus (JMTV) is a new tick-borne segmented RNA virus detected in Rhipicephalus microplus ticks in the Jingmen region of Hubei province in China in 2010 and was first described by Qin et al. in 2014 [1].The viral genome is composed of four segments: two which encode non-structural proteins are genetically related to the NS3 and NS5 sequences of the genus Flavivirus, and the other two segments, which encode structural proteins, are completely unique suggesting that they might have originated from a yet uncharacterized virus.Subsequently to this report, Shi et al. and Webster et al. reported the detection of JMTV-like virus genomes in insects in China and in England and Kenya, respectively [2,3].In 2016, Guaico Culex virus (GCXV), a virus genetically close to JMTV was detected in Culex spp.mosquitoes collected