Metatranscriptomics Reveals the Diversity of the Tick Virome in Northwest China

• DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.01115-22
• Publication Date: 2022-10-10T14:08:59Z
• Authors: Yunyi Kong; Gang Zhang; Lingling Jiang; Pu Wang; Sinong Zhang; Xiaomin Zheng; Yong Li
• Keywords: tick-borne viruses; Phlebovirus; 0301 basic medicine; China; metatranscriptomics; Virome; phylogenetic analysis; Microbiology; QR1-502; ticks; 3. Good health; 03 medical and health sciences; Ticks; Tick-Borne Diseases; Viruses; Humans; Animals; RNA Viruses; Phylogeny; Research Article

Ticks are widely distributed in pastoral areas in northwestern China and act as vectors that carry and transmit a variety of pathogens, especially viruses. Our study revealed the diversity of tick viruses in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia and uncovered the phylogenetic relationships of some RNA viruses, especially the important zoonotic tick-borne severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in Inner Mongolia.