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Volume 29, Number 4—April 2023
Dispatch

Yezo Virus Infection in Tick-Bitten Patient and Ticks, Northeastern China

Xiaolong Lv1, Ziyan Liu1, Liang Li1, Wenbo Xu, Yongxu Yuan, Xiaojie Liang, Li Zhang, Zhengkai Wei, Liyan Sui, Yinghua Zhao, Zhijun Hou, Feng Wei, Shuzhen Han, Quan Liu, and Zedong WangComments to Author 
Author affiliations: First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China (Z. Liu, W. Xu, L. Sui, Y. Zhao, Q. Liu, Z. Wang); Inner Mongolia General Forestry Hospital, Yakeshi, China (X. Lv, S. Han); Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun (Z. Liu, Y. Yuan, X. Liang, F. Wei); Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun (L. Li, L. Zhang, Q. Liu, Z. Wang); Foshan University, Foshan, China (Z. Wei, Q. Liu); Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China (Z. Hou)

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Table 2

Detection of Yezo virus RNA in Ixodes persulcatus ticks, northeastern China*

Province Sampling time No. pools/no. ticks No. positive pools Positive rate (95% CI)
Heilongjiang 2021 63/625 3 0.5 (0.1–1.3)
Jilin 2020–2021 19/192 1 0.5 (0.0–2.5)
Inner Mongolia
 2021
 26/258
 1
 0.4 (0.0–1.9)
Total 2020–2021 108/1,075 5 0.5 (0.2–1.0)

*Prevalence of Yezo virus infection in ticks was calculated by using PooledInfRate Excel Add-In version 4.0 (Microsoft, https://www.microsoft.com) and a 1-sample analysis with a bias-corrected maximum likelihood estimation method with 95% CIs and a scale of 100.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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