TY - JOUR AU - Sang, Rosemary AU - Lutomiah, Joel AU - Koka, Hellen AU - Makio, Albina AU - Chepkorir, Edith AU - Ochieng, Caroline AU - Yalwala, Santos AU - Mutisya, James AU - Musila, Lilian AU - Richardson, Jason H. AU - Miller, Barry R. AU - Schnabel, David T1 - Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Hyalommid Ticks, Northeastern Kenya T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 8 SP - 1502 SN - 1080-6059 AB - As part of ongoing arbovirus surveillance, we screened ticks obtained from livestock in northeastern Kenya in 2008 to assess the risk for human exposure to tick-borne viruses. Of 1,144 pools of 8,600 Hyalomma spp. ticks screened for Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever virus by reverse transcription PCR, 23 pools were infected, demonstrating a potential for human exposure. KW - Arbovirus KW - ticks KW - Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever KW - species KW - livestock KW - viruses KW - vector-borne infections KW - zoonoses KW - dispatch KW - Kenya DO - 10.3201/eid1708.102064 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/8/10-2064_article ER - End of Reference