Tete orthobunyavirus explained

Tete orthobunyavirus is a bunyavirus found originally in Tete Province, Mozambique. It is a disease of animals and humans. Two forms, Bahig and Matruh viruses, were isolated from bird ticks including Hyalomma marginatum, but elsewhere mosquitoes and biting midges have been implicated as vectors.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Subtypes

• Bahig virus
• Matruh virus
• Tete virus SAAn3518
• Tsuruse virus
• Weldona virus

Literature

• Book: C.M. . Fauquet . M.A. . Mayo . etal . Eighth Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses . 2005 . Elsevier . 0-12-249951-4 . S. 704 .

Notes and References

1. Converse JD, Hoogstraal H, Moussa MI, Stek M, Kaiser MN . Bahig virus (Tete group) in naturally- and transovarially-infected Hyalomma marginatum ticks from Egypt and Italy . Arch Gesamte Virusforsch . 46 . 1–2 . 29–35 . 1974 . 4441433 . 10.1007/bf01240201 . 35506328 .
2. Charles Calisher . Calisher CH, McLean RG, Zeller HG, Francy DB, Karabatsos N, Bowen RA . Isolation of Tete serogroup bunyaviruses from Ceratopogonidae collected in Colorado . Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. . 43 . 3 . 314–8 . 1990 . 2221226 . 10.4269/ajtmh.1990.43.314.
3. Mohamed M, McLees A, Elliott RM . Viruses in the Anopheles A, Anopheles B, and Tete serogroups in the Orthobunyavirus genus (family Bunyaviridae) do not encode an NSs protein . J. Virol. . 83 . 15 . 7612–8 . 2009 . 19439468 . 2708632 . 10.1128/JVI.02080-08 .