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Article

First Detection of Jingmen Tick Virus in Hard Ticks Collected Across Multiple Regions of Italy

by
Silvia Fabi
1,2,
Mariachiara Vardeu
1,3,
Alex Martini
1,
Elisa Franchin
1,4,
Renata Fagundes-Moreira
3,5,
Giulia Chiarello
6,
Graziana Da Rold
7,
Federica Gobbo
6,
Federica Obber
7,
Valentina Tagliapietra
8,
Chiara Agostini
1,
Arianna Breda
1,
Elisabetta Valente
4,
Valentina Chisu
9,
Cipriano Foxi
9,
Federica Cavaliere
10,
Rokia Moretti
10,
Annapaola Rizzoli
8,
Ilaria Pascucci
10,
Carlo Vittorio Citterio
7,
Giovanna Masala
9,
Fabrizio Montarsi
6,
Claudia Del Vecchio
1,4,
Ignazio Castagliuolo
1,4,
Enrico Lavezzo
1 and
Cristiano Salata
1,*add Show full author list remove Hide full author list
1
Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Via A. Gabelli 63, 35121 Padua, Italy
2
Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Piazza della Vittoria 15, 27100 Pavia, Italy
3
PhD National Programme in One Health Approaches to Infectious Diseases and Life Science Research, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Viale Golgi 19, 27100 Pavia, Italy
4
Microbiology and Virology Diagnostic Unit, Padova University Hospital, Via Giustiniani 2, 35121 Padua, Italy
5
Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Str. Prov. per Casamassima km 3, 70010 Valenzano, Italy
6
Laboratory of Medical Entomology and Vector-Borne Diseases, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Viale dell’Università 10, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
7
U.O. Ecopathology Wildelife Specialistic Center-SCT2-Belluno, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Via Fiorenzo Tomea, 5, 32100 Belluno, Italy
8
Research and Innovation Centre Fondazione Edmund Mach, Via Mach 1, 38098 San Michele all’Adige, Italy
9
Department of Animal Health, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Via Duca degli Abruzzi 8, 07100 Sassari, Italy
10
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Umbria e delle Marche “T. Rosati”—Sede di Pesaro, Via dei Canonici 140, 61122 Pesaro, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Viruses 2026, 18(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/v18010006
Submission received: 28 November 2025 / Revised: 15 December 2025 / Accepted: 17 December 2025 / Published: 19 December 2025
(This article belongs to the Section Animal Viruses)
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Abstract

Jingmen tick virus (JMTV) is a novel flavi-like virus first identified in 2010 in Rhipicephalus microplus in the Jingmen region of Hubei Province, China and has been reported in different Asian countries, Central and South America, Africa, and Europe. Beyond ticks, JMTV has been detected in a range of other arthropods and in vertebrate hosts. In humans, JMTV has been found in patients with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Kosovo and Turkey, and in febrile patients with a history of tick bites in China, suggesting it may be a novel human pathogen. To investigate the presence of JMTV in Italy, we developed a One-step real-time RT-PCR assay and applied it to individually screen 1150 ticks collected from northeastern, central, and southern Italy. JMTV RNA was detected in multiple tick species, including Ixodes ricinus, Rhipicephalus bursa, Rhipicephalus sanguineus s.l., Dermacentor marginatus, and Hyalomma marginatum with a prevalence ranging from 0.52% to 18.42% in questing ticks. The detection of JMTV in ticks from all surveyed areas, indicates that the virus is geographically widespread in Italy. These findings highlight the need for comprehensive surveillance strategies to identify new areas of active virus circulation and to investigate the potential impact of JMTV on public health.
Keywords: Jingmen tick virus; Jingmenvirus; tick; Flaviviridae; Italy; epidemiology; real-time PCR; sequencing Jingmen tick virus; Jingmenvirus; tick; Flaviviridae; Italy; epidemiology; real-time PCR; sequencing

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Fabi, S.; Vardeu, M.; Martini, A.; Franchin, E.; Fagundes-Moreira, R.; Chiarello, G.; Da Rold, G.; Gobbo, F.; Obber, F.; Tagliapietra, V.; et al. First Detection of Jingmen Tick Virus in Hard Ticks Collected Across Multiple Regions of Italy. Viruses 2026, 18, 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/v18010006

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Fabi S, Vardeu M, Martini A, Franchin E, Fagundes-Moreira R, Chiarello G, Da Rold G, Gobbo F, Obber F, Tagliapietra V, et al. First Detection of Jingmen Tick Virus in Hard Ticks Collected Across Multiple Regions of Italy. Viruses. 2026; 18(1):6. https://doi.org/10.3390/v18010006

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Fabi, Silvia, Mariachiara Vardeu, Alex Martini, Elisa Franchin, Renata Fagundes-Moreira, Giulia Chiarello, Graziana Da Rold, Federica Gobbo, Federica Obber, Valentina Tagliapietra, and et al. 2026. "First Detection of Jingmen Tick Virus in Hard Ticks Collected Across Multiple Regions of Italy" Viruses 18, no. 1: 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/v18010006

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Fabi, S., Vardeu, M., Martini, A., Franchin, E., Fagundes-Moreira, R., Chiarello, G., Da Rold, G., Gobbo, F., Obber, F., Tagliapietra, V., Agostini, C., Breda, A., Valente, E., Chisu, V., Foxi, C., Cavaliere, F., Moretti, R., Rizzoli, A., Pascucci, I., ... Salata, C. (2026). First Detection of Jingmen Tick Virus in Hard Ticks Collected Across Multiple Regions of Italy. Viruses, 18(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/v18010006

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