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Ticks and tick-borne novel bunyavirus collected from the natural environment and domestic animals in Jinan city, East China

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Since 2011, 73 cases of the severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, a novel tick-borne disease, have been reported in Jinan city through information system for disease control and prevention. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the species, distribution, host animals of ticks and tick-borne pathogens. A total of 722 ticks were collected from two types of natural environment and six kinds of domestic animal in Jinan city. All the sampled ticks belonged to the same species, namely Haemaphysalis longicornis, and 94.7 % of them were adult. The density of free-living ticks in grassland was nearly six times that in shrub. The prevalence of the goat (53.3 %) was highest among the domestic animals. The host body region most frequently parasitized by H. longicornis was the head (77.8 %), especially ears and periocular region. Novel bunyavirus was detected on the free-ranging goats in Jinan city. Acaricide treatment with a higher concentration on the ears, periocular region and the groin of domestic animals should be recommended to control the ticks effectively.

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This work was supported by the National Key Disease Surveillance Programme (201301002). The authors thank Zhang-qiu center for disease control and prevention for their help in the field collections.

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    Dong Wang, Yongming Wang, Guoliang Yang, Huiyuan Liu & Zheng Xin

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Wang, D., Wang, Y., Yang, G. et al. Ticks and tick-borne novel bunyavirus collected from the natural environment and domestic animals in Jinan city, East China. Exp Appl Acarol 68, 213–221 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-015-9992-2

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