Article: Greek goat encephalitis virus strain isolated from Ixodes ricinus, Greece.(DISPATCHES)

A strain of Greek goat encephaltitis virus was isolated from engorged Ixodes ricinus ticks that had fed on goats in northern Greece. The strain was almost identical to the prototype strain isolated

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Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a zoonotic infection of the central nervous system; it is transmitted by ticks from the family Ixodidae. In an ecologic sense the disease agent, TBE virus, is an arbovirus (arthropod-borne virus); taxonomically, it is a member of the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae. According to the latest taxonomy on flaviviruses, TBE virus is a species in the mammalian tickborne virus group and has 3 subtypes: European, Far Eastern, and ...

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