Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Department of Zoonoses, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing 102206, China.
Viruses. 2020 Sep 2;12(9):975. doi: 10.3390/v12090975.
Hematophagous arthropods are important vectors for zoonotic pathogens. To date, a huge number of viruses have been identified in these arthropods, with a considerable proportion of them being human pathogens. However, the viromes of hematophagous arthropods are still largely unresearched. In this study, a number of arthropods were collected from Belgrade, Serbia including mosquitoes, ticks and bedbugs. The viromes of these arthropods were identified and characterized using Illumina MiSeq sequencing. In total, 21 viruses belonging to 11 families were characterized, with 11 of them representing novel species. These results may contribute to our knowledge of RNA viruses in arthropods and the discovery of novel human pathogens.
吸血节肢动物是重要的人畜共患病病原体载体。迄今为止，已在这些节肢动物中鉴定出大量病毒，其中相当一部分是人类病原体。然而，吸血节肢动物的病毒组仍在很大程度上未被研究。在这项研究中，从塞尔维亚的贝尔格莱德采集了一些节肢动物，包括蚊子、蜱虫和臭虫。使用 Illumina MiSeq 测序对这些节肢动物的病毒组进行了鉴定和特征分析。共鉴定出 21 种属于 11 个科的病毒，其中 11 种为新种。这些结果可能有助于我们了解节肢动物中的 RNA 病毒和发现新的人类病原体。
