%0 Journal Article
%A Rivero-Juarez, Antonio
%A Risalde, Maria A
%A Gortazar, Christian
%A Lopez-Lopez, Pedro
%A Barasona, Jose A
%A Frias, Mario
%A Caballero-Gomez, Javier
%A de la Fuente, Jose
%A Rivero, Antonio
%T Detection of Hepatitis E Virus in Hyalomma lusitanicum Ticks Feeding on Wild Boars.
%D 2021
%@ 1664-302X
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/18257
%X Little is known about the role of ticks in maintaining highly prevalent zoonotic viruses in wildlife, such as hepatitis E virus (HEV), which do not require ticks for transmission between animals and humans. In this cross-sectional study, adult female ticks were collected from Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa) in autumn 2015 in Spain. HEV RNA in both ticks and wild boar was evaluated by RT-qPCR. Twenty-nine adult Hyalomma lusitanicum ticks were collected from 29 wild boars. HEV RNA was detected in a total of 10 tick (34.4%) and 11 wild boar serum samples (37.9%). In two cases, detectable HEV RNA was found in a wild boar but not in the tick collected from them. In contrast, one HEV-positive tick was collected from an HEV-negative wild boar. All viral sequences were consistent with genotype 3f. We describe for the first time the presence of HEV RNA in adult Hyalomma lusitanicum ticks.
%K Hyalomma lusitanicum
%K Epidemiology
%K Hepatitis E
%K Tick
%K Wild boar
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