Uukuniemi virus, Czech Republic

Anna Papa; Hana Zelená; Elpida Papadopoulou; Jakub Mrázek

doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.04.011

Uukuniemi virus, Czech Republic

Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2018 Jul;9(5):1129-1132. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.04.011. Epub 2018 Apr 20.

Authors

Anna Papa¹, Hana Zelená², Elpida Papadopoulou³, Jakub Mrázek⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Electronic address: annap@med.auth.gr.
² Department of Virology, Institute of Public Health, Ostrava, Czech Republic; University of Defence, Faculty of Military Health Sciences, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
³ Department of Microbiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁴ Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Public Health, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

PMID: 29699908
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.04.011

Abstract

Following the identification of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome and Heartland viruses, the interest on tick-borne phleboviruses has increased rapidly. Uukuniemi virus has been proposed as a model for tick-borne phleboviruses. However, the number of available sequences is limited. In the current study we performed whole-genome sequencing on two Uukuniemi viral strains isolated in 2000 and 2004 from Ixodes ricinus ticks in the Czech Republic. Both strains cluster together with Potepli63 strain isolated in the country in 1963. Although the Czech strains were isolated many years apart, a high identity was seen at the nucleotide and amino acid levels, suggesting that UUKV has a relatively stable genome.

Keywords: Czech Republic; Ixodes ricinus; Phlebovirus; Uukuniemi virus.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Bunyaviridae Infections / epidemiology
Czech Republic / epidemiology
Genome, Viral
Ixodes / virology*
Tick-Borne Diseases / epidemiology
Tick-Borne Diseases / virology
Uukuniemi virus / genetics*
Uukuniemi virus / isolation & purification*
Whole Genome Sequencing