Molecular detection of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) in feral cats from Seoul, Korea

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• 作者：Jusun Hwang^a ; ^b ; Jun-Gu Kang^c ; Sung-Suck Oh^c ; Jeong-Byoung Chae^c ; Yun-Kyung Cho^c ; Young-Sun Cho^c ; Hang Lee^b ; Joon-Seok Chae^c ; ^{jschae@snu.ac.kr}
• 关键词：Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus ; Feral cat ; Urban habitat ; RT-PCR ; Korea
• 刊名：Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：8
• 期：1
• 页码：9-12
• 全文大小：546 K
• 卷排序：8

文摘

This study tested serum samples of feral cats from a highly urbanized habitat, Seoul, Korea to determine the infection to severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV). From 126 samples tested, SFTSV was detected by RT-PCR in 22 (17.5%) cats from various sites of Seoul. Sequences identified from this study were grouped with clusters from China and Japan. Our result provides data that SFTSV may have been circulating in settings that were suspected to have relatively low risk, such as highly urbanized habitats. Thus it warrants further study to investigate the ecology of SFTSV in urban-dwelling animals including ticks, human and other potential host species.