Kadam virus

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Kadam virus
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(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Kitrinoviricota
Class: Flasuviricetes
Order: Amarillovirales
Family: Flaviviridae
Genus: Flavivirus
Species:
Orthoflavivirus kadamense

Kadam virus (or KAD, strain MP6640) is a tick-borne Flavivirus . [1]

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Located

The virus was first isolated by the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda, after samples were taken from cattle in Karamoja in 1967. [2] The viruses were usually only found from Rhipicephalus and Amblyomma ticks around Kenya and Uganda infecting cattle and humans. [3]

Spread

In the early 1980s, Kadam virus was found to be spread in Saudi Arabia by Hyalomma ticks [3] when found on a dead camel at Wadi Thamamah in Riyadh.

References

  1. ↑ "Kadam virus MP6640". www.european-virus-archive.com. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  2. ↑ Henderson BE, Tukei PM, McCrae AW, Ssenkubuge Y, Mugo WN (1970). "Virus isolations from Ixodid ticks in Uganda. II. Kadam virus—a new member of arbovirus group B isolated from Rhipicephalus pravus Dontiz". East Afr Med J. 47 (5): 273–6. ISSN   0012-835X. PMID   5473597.
  3. 1 2 Wood OL, Moussa MI, Hoogstraal H, Büttiker W (1982). "Kadam virus (Togaviridae, Flavivirus) infecting camel-parasitizing Hyalomma dromedarii ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Saudi Arabia". J. Med. Entomol. 19 (2): 207–8. doi:10.1093/jmedent/19.2.207. PMID   7086856.


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