Journal
VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES
Volume 14, Issue 8, Pages 621-624Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2013.1479
Keywords
Tick-borne encephalitis; Small mammals; Prevalence; RT-PCR; Hungary
Funding
- TAMOP 4.2.4. A/2-11-1-2012-0001-National Excellence Program Elaborating
- European Social Fund
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) [PD77977]
- Momentum Program
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Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) infection is a common zoonotic disease affecting humans in Europe and Asia. To determine whether TBEV is present in small mammalian hosts in Hungary, liver samples of wild rodents were tested for TBEV RNA. Over a period of 7 years, a total of 405 rodents were collected at five different geographic locations of the Transdanubian region. TBEV nucleic acid was identified in four rodent species: Apodemus agrarius, A. flavicollis, Microtus arvalis, and Myodes glareolus. Out of the 405 collected rodents, 17 small mammals (4.2%) were positive for TBEV. The present study provides molecular evidence and sequence data of TBEV from rodents in Hungary.
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