Vincent Cicculli, Agathe M G Colmant, Geraldine Piorkowski, Rayane Amaral, Apolline Maitre, Dorine Decarreaux, Laurence Thirion, Gregory Moureau, Alessandra Falchi, Xavier de Lamballerie, Remi N Charrel, Nazli Ayhan
Jingmen tick virus (JMTV) is a recently discovered segmented RNA virus, closely related to flaviviruses. It was identified for the first time in 2014, in China and subsequently in Brazil. Following this discovery, JMTV-related sequences have been identified in arthropods, vertebrates (including humans), plants, fungus and environmental samples from Asia, America, Africa, Europe and Oceania. Several studies suggest an association between these segmented flavi-like viruses, termed jingmenviruses, and febrile illness in humans...
March 27, 2024: Research Square