Distribution and Genotypic Landscape of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus in Ticks from Latvia from 2019 to 2023.

ABSTRACT: Ticks are important parasites of economic and public health because of their ability to transmit zoonotic diseases. Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), now officially Orthoflavivirus encephalitidis, is a Flavivirus with five main subtypes of which three, the European (TBEV-EU), the Siberian (TBEV-Sib), and the Far-Eastern subtypes (TBEV-FE), are supposedly circulate in Latvia. Several hard tick species are involved in TBEV circulation and transmission in nature. This study set out to describe the genetic landscape of TBEV subtypes in Latvian tick populations. In 2019 and 2021 to 2023, a total of 3026 ticks were collected in three Latvian regions, with Ixodes ricinus as the dominant species (2822 specimens), followed by Ixodes persulcatus (200 specimens) and Dermac

SUBMITTER: Chitimia-Dobler L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12472722 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature