Kemerovo tickborne viral fever

Kemerovo tickborne viral fever is an aparalytic febrile illness accompanied by meningism following tick-bite.^[1] The causative agent is a zoonotic Orbivirus first described in 1963 in western Siberia by Mikhail Chumakov and coworkers.^[2] The virus has some 23 serotypes, and can occur in coinfections with other Orbiviruses and tick-transmitted encephalitis viruses, complicating the course of illness.^[3] Rodents and birds are the primary vertebrate hosts of the virus;^[4] Ixodes persulcatus ticks are a vector of the virus.^[5] Kemerovo and related viruses may be translocated distances in the environment by migratory birds.^[6]

References

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^ Chumakov MP, Saramanova ES, Bychkova MV, Bannova GG, Pivanova GP, Karpovich LG, Izotov VK, Rzhakhova OE (1963). "[Identification of the virus of Kemerovo tick-borne fever. Evidence of the antigenic independence of this virus]". Vopr. Virusol. (in Russian). 29: 440–4. PMID 14071281.
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