Detection of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in Hyalomma marginatum ticks, southern France, May 2022 and April 2023

Célia Bernard; Charlotte Joly Kukla; Ignace Rakotoarivony; Maxime Duhayon; Frédéric Stachurski; Karine Huber; Carla Giupponi; Iyonna Zortman; Philippe Holzmuller; Thomas Pollet; Mélanie Jeanneau; Alice Mercey; Nathalie Vachiery; Thierry Lefrançois; Claire Garros; Vincent Michaud; Loic Comtet; Léa Despois; Philippe Pourquier; Caroline Picard; Alexandra Journeaux; Damien Thomas; Sabine Godard; Elodie Moissonnier; Stéphane Mely; Manon Sega; Delphine Pannetier; Sylvain Baize; Laurence Vial

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.6.2400023

Detection of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in Hyalomma marginatum ticks, southern France, May 2022 and April 2023

Euro Surveill. 2024 Feb;29(6):2400023. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.6.2400023.

Authors

Célia Bernard^{1

2}, Charlotte Joly Kukla^{1

2

3}, Ignace Rakotoarivony^{1

2}, Maxime Duhayon^{1

2}, Frédéric Stachurski^{1

2}, Karine Huber^{1

2}, Carla Giupponi^{1

2}, Iyonna Zortman^{1

2}, Philippe Holzmuller^{1

2}, Thomas Pollet^{1

2}, Mélanie Jeanneau^{1

2}, Alice Mercey^{1

2}, Nathalie Vachiery^{1

2}, Thierry Lefrançois⁴, Claire Garros^{1

2}, Vincent Michaud^{1

2}, Loic Comtet⁵, Léa Despois⁵, Philippe Pourquier⁵, Caroline Picard^{6

7}, Alexandra Journeaux^{6

7}, Damien Thomas^{6

8}, Sabine Godard^{6

8}, Elodie Moissonnier^{6

8}, Stéphane Mely^{6

8}, Manon Sega^{6

8}, Delphine Pannetier^{6

8}, Sylvain Baize^{6

7}, Laurence Vial^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), University of Montpellier (UMR) Animal Santé Territoires Risques Écosystèmes (ASTRE), Montpellier, France.
² ASTRE UMR, CIRAD, Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRAE), Montpellier, France.
³ Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (ANSES), INRAE, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, UMR BIPAR, Laboratoire de Santé Animale, Maisons-Alfort, France.
⁴ CIRAD, DG, Paris, France.
⁵ Innovative Diagnostics, Grabels, France.
⁶ National Reference Center for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Lyon, France.
⁷ Unité de Biologie des Infections Virales Emergentes, Institut Pasteur - Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), Université de Lyon, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) U1111, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS UMR5308, Lyon, France.
⁸ Laboratoire P4 INSERM Jean Mérieux, INSERM Lyon, France.

PMID: 38333936
PMCID: PMC10853980
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.6.2400023

Abstract

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), a potentially severe zoonotic viral disease causing fever and haemorrhagic manifestations in humans. As the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) has been detected in ticks in Spain and antibodies against the virus in ruminant sera in Corsica, it was necessary to know more about the situation in France. In 2022-2023, CCHFV was detected in 155 ticks collected from horses and cattle in southern France.

Keywords: CCHFV; France; Hyalomma marginatum; cattle; ticks.

MeSH terms

Animals
Cattle
France / epidemiology
Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Crimean-Congo* / genetics
Hemorrhagic Fever, Crimean* / diagnosis
Hemorrhagic Fever, Crimean* / epidemiology
Hemorrhagic Fever, Crimean* / veterinary
Horses
Humans
Ixodidae*
Ticks*
Zoonoses