A novel nairovirus associated with acute febrile illness in Hokkaido, Japan

© 2021. The Author(s)..

The increasing burden of tick-borne orthonairovirus infections, such as Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, is becoming a global concern for public health. In the present study, we identify a novel orthonairovirus, designated Yezo virus (YEZV), from two patients showing acute febrile illness with thrombocytopenia and leukopenia after tick bite in Hokkaido, Japan, in 2019 and 2020, respectively. YEZV is phylogenetically grouped with Sulina virus detected in Ixodes ricinus ticks in Romania. YEZV infection has been confirmed in seven patients from 2014-2020, four of whom were co-infected with Borrelia spp. Antibodies to YEZV are found in wild deer and raccoons, and YEZV RNAs have been detected in ticks from Hokkaido. In this work, we demonstrate that YEZV is highly likely to be the causative pathogen of febrile illness, representing the first report of an endemic infection associated with an orthonairovirus potentially transmitted by ticks in Japan.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Nature communications - 12(2021), 1 vom: 20. Sept., Seite 5539

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kodama, Fumihiro [VerfasserIn]
Yamaguchi, Hiroki [VerfasserIn]
Park, Eunsil [VerfasserIn]
Tatemoto, Kango [VerfasserIn]
Sashika, Mariko [VerfasserIn]
Nakao, Ryo [VerfasserIn]
Terauchi, Yurino [VerfasserIn]
Mizuma, Keita [VerfasserIn]
Orba, Yasuko [VerfasserIn]
Kariwa, Hiroaki [VerfasserIn]
Hagiwara, Katsuro [VerfasserIn]
Okazaki, Katsunori [VerfasserIn]
Goto, Akiko [VerfasserIn]
Komagome, Rika [VerfasserIn]
Miyoshi, Masahiro [VerfasserIn]
Ito, Takuya [VerfasserIn]
Yamano, Kimiaki [VerfasserIn]
Yoshii, Kentaro [VerfasserIn]
Funaki, Chiaki [VerfasserIn]
Ishizuka, Mariko [VerfasserIn]
Shigeno, Asako [VerfasserIn]
Itakura, Yukari [VerfasserIn]
Bell-Sakyi, Lesley [VerfasserIn]
Edagawa, Shunji [VerfasserIn]
Nagasaka, Atsushi [VerfasserIn]
Sakoda, Yoshihiro [VerfasserIn]
Sawa, Hirofumi [VerfasserIn]
Maeda, Ken [VerfasserIn]
Saijo, Masayuki [VerfasserIn]
Matsuno, Keita [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Viral
Case Reports
Journal Article
RNA, Viral
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 12.10.2021

Date Revised 16.02.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41467-021-25857-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330869450