First report of adult Hyalomma marginatum rufipes (vector of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus) on cattle under a continental climate in Hungary

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EDENext Number (or EDEN No): 

EDENext064

Authors: 

Sándor Hornok, Gábor Horváth

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2012

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Parasit Vectors. 2012; 5: 170. Published online 2012 August 13. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-170

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Data description: 

2011, ticks sampled from 2163 cattle and deer.

Keywords: 

Hyalomma marginatum rufipes, cattle, continental climate, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever

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Abstract: 

Background

South Hungary is being monitored for the northward spreading of thermophilic ixodid species, therefore ticks were collected from cattle and wild ruminants (red, fallow and roe deer) in the autumn of 2011.

Findings

Besides indigenous species (1185 Dermacentor reticulatus and 976 Ixodes ricinus), two Hyalomma marginatum rufipes males were found on two cows, in September eight days apart.

Conclusions

This is the northernmost autochthonous infestation of the type host (cattle) with H. m. rufipes, vector of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus. The present findings are suggestive of the moulting success of this Afro-Mediterranean tick species in a continental climate in Central Europe.