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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 9.
Published in final edited form as: Antiviral Res. 2013 Jul 18;100(1):20–28. doi: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2013.07.007

Table 4.

Species of ticks from which CCHFV has been recovered in Iran. As discussed in the text, only Hyalomma spp. and certain other species of ixodid (hard) ticks are considered to be competent vectors for the virus.

Date Tick Location Virus detection Reference
1978 Ornithodoros lahorensis Khorasan Virus isolated for the first time in ticks in Iran (Sureau and Klein, 1980)
2004–2005 Rhipicephalus bursa Hyalomma genus Ornithodoros lahorensis Ardabil Ticks were tested by RT-PCR (Telmadarraiy et al., 2010)
2007 Hyalomma genus Rhipicephalus sanguineus Argas reflexus Hamadan Tested by RT-PCR (Tahmasebi et al., 2010)
2007 Hyalomma genus Kurdistan Tested by RT-PCR (Fakoorziba et al., 2012)