Isolation of Bhandja virus from Hyaloma plumbeum impressum ticks collected in Somalia

Butenko, A.M.; Gromashevskiĭ, V.L.; L'vov, D.K.; Popov, V.F.

Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 48(3): 37-39

1979


ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326
PMID: 460051
Document Number: 153246
The 1st isolation of Bhanja virus from H. plumbeum impressum ticks collected in 1974 in Somalia presented in the paper supplements the information on geographical distribution and vectors of this virus. Antigenically, the Somalian strain of Bhanja virus does not differ from strains isolated in Nigeria and the USSR as demonstrated by the results of cross CF tests.

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