Viral Diversity of Tick Species Parasitizing Cattle and Dogs in Trinidad and Tobago
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Ticks are vectors of a wide variety of pathogens that are implicated in mild to severe disease in humans and other animals. Nonetheless, the full range of tick-borne pathogens is unknown. Viruses, in particular, have been neglected in discovery efforts targeting tick-borne agents. High throughput sequencing was used to characterize the virome of 638 ticks, including <jats:italic>Rhipicephalus microplus</jats:italic> (n = 320), <jats:italic>Rhipicephalus sanguineus</jats:italic> (n = 300), and <jats:italic>Amblyomma ovale</jats:italic> (n = 18) collected throughout Trinidad and Tobago in 2017 and 2018. Sequences representing nine viruses were identified, including five novel species within <jats:italic>Tymovirales</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Bunyavirales</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Chuviridae</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Rhabdoviridae</jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Flaviviridae</jats:italic>. Thereafter the frequency of detection of viral sequences in individual tick species was investigated.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Scientific Reports
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Scientific Reports 9 (1), 10421-, 2019-07-18
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
