Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

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Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks from Migratory Birds, Morocco¹

Ana M. Palomar, Aránzazu Portillo, Paula Santibáñez, David Mazuelas, Juan Arizaga, Ariñe Crespo, Óscar Gutiérrez, Juan Francisco Cuadrado, and José A. Oteo

Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Hospital San Pedro–CIBIR, Center of Rickettsioses and Arthropod-Borne Diseases, Logroño, Spain. (A.M. Palomar, A. Portillo, P. Santibáñez, J.A. Oteo); Environment Resources Inc., Logroño (D. Mazuelas); Aranzadi Society of Sciences, San Sebastián, Spain (J. Arizaga, A. Crespo, Ó. Gutiérrez, J.F. Cuadrado)

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Table

Distribution in pools of Hyalomma marginatum ticks collected from birds in Zouala, Morocco, and PCR results for detection of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus*

Pool	Bird species (no. specimens)	No. H. marginatum ticks collected, by stage		PCR results
Pool	Bird species (no. specimens)	Larvae	Nymphs	Eecf primers	Gre primers
A	Erythropygia galactotes (1)		2 FE	+	–
A	Phoenicurus phoenicurus (1)		6 FE
B	E. galactotes (2)	1 SE	7 FE	+	–
B	Iduna opaca (1)	3 FE
C	I. opaca (2)	6 FE	1 FE	+	–
C	P. phoenicurus (1)		1 SE
D	Acrocephalus scirpaceus (1)	4 SE	1 FE	+†	–
	I. opaca (1)		1 FE
	I. pallida (1)		1 SE, 1 FE
E	A. scirpaceus (1)	2 FE		–	–
	E. galactotes (1)		2 FE
	I. opaca (4)	1 FE	2 SE, 1 FE
	P. phoenicurus (1)		1 FE
F	E. galactotes (1)		2 FE	–	–
	I. opaca (2)	2 SE	1 SE, 1 FE
	P. phoenicurus (1)		1 SE, 1 FE

*FE, fully engorged; +, positive; –, negative; SE, semi-engorged.
†No sequence was obtained.

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¹Data from this study were presented in part at the XVI Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica, Bilbao, Spain, May 9–11, 2012.

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