Xing Zhang
1, Chaoyue Zhao
1, Chaoyuan Cheng
1, Guogang Zhang
1, Tao Yu, Kevin Lawrence, Hongyue Li, Jimin Sun, Zeyu Yang, Ling Ye, Hongliang Chu, Ying Wang, Xiaohu Han, Yongchao Jia, Shuozhang Fan, Hirotaka Kanuka, Tetsuya Tanaka, Cheryl Jenkins, Kristene Gedye, Shona Chandra, Dana C. Price, Qiyong Liu, Young Ki Choi, Xiangjiang Zhan
, Zhibin Zhang
, and Aihua Zheng
Author affiliations: State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, CAS, Beijing (X. Zhang, C. Zhao, C. Cheng, H. Li, X. Zhan, Z. Zhang, A. Zheng); University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (X. Zhang, C. Zhao, C. Cheng, H. Li, Z. Zhang, A. Zheng); Yantai Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Yantai, China (T. Yu); Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand (K. Lawrence, K. Gedye); Zhejiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhejiang, China (J. Sun); Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing (Z. Yang, G. Zhang); Daishan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhoushan, China (L. Ye); Jiangsu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China (H. Chu); Xinyang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Xinyang, China (Y. Wang); Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China (X. Han); Guangyuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangyuan, China (Y. Jia); Hebei University, Baoding, China (S. Fan); Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (H. Kanuka); Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan (T. Tanaka); Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, New South Wales, Australia (C. Jenkins); University of Sydney, Camden, New South Wales, Australia (S. Chandra); Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA (D.C. Price):; National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing (Q. Liu); Chungbuk National University, Cheongju City, South Korea (Y.K. Choi)
Figure 7. Susceptibility of bisexual and parthenogenetic Asian longhorned ticks to severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV), China. Groups of bisexual or parthenogenetic nymph Asian longhorned ticks were fed separately on 1 IFNAR−/− (interferon α/β receptor knockout) C57/BL6 mouse that was intraperitoneal inoculated with 2 x 103 focus-forming units of SFTSV. A) Viremias of IFNAR−/− C57/BL6 mice were monitored by using real-time PCR during tick feeding. B) SFTSV infection in the Asian longhorned ticks were tested by real-time PCR after molting into adults. Each dot or square indicates 1 tick. Black horizontal bars indicate means. NS, not significant.