Article
[Genetic diversity of the tick-borne encephalitis virus in Ixodes persulcatus ticks in northeastern European Russia].
Parazitologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Mikriukova T P, Chausov E V, Konovalova S N, Kononova Iu V, Protopopova E V, Kartashov M Iu, Trnovoĭ V A, Glushkova L I, Korabel'nikov I V, Egorova I Iu, Loktev V B
Abstract excerpt
The genetic diversity of the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) in the PCR-positive Taiga ticks collected in the Republic of Komi in 2010 was evaluated. The analyses of nucleotide sequences of the 5'-NCR fragments of viral genome from ticks had shown that 13 isolates of TBEV from 16 sequencing variants were represented by the highly pathogenic Far Eastern genotype of the TBEV and only 3 isolates were identified...
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