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Volume 31, Number 4—April 2025
Research

Oz Virus Infection in 6 Animal Species, Including Macaques, Bears, and Companion Animals, Japan

Aya Matsuu1, Kango Tatemoto, Keita Ishijima, Ayano Nishino, Yusuke Inoue, Eunsil Park, Hiroo Tamatani, Junji Seto, Hideo Higashi, Yuichi Fukui, Takashi Noma, Kandai Doi, Rumiko Nakashita, Haruhiko Isawa, Shinji Kasai, and Ken MaedaComments to Author 
Author affiliation: National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (A. Matsuu, K. Tatemoto, K. Ishijima, A. Nishino, Y. Inoue, E. Park, H. Isawa, S. Kasai, K. Maeda); Picchio Wildlife Research Center, Karuizawa, Japan (H. Tamatani); Yamagata Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Yamagata, Japan (J. Seto); Wildlife Workshop, Yamagata (H. Higashi); Komachi Animal Hospital, Tsukuba, Japan (Y. Fukui); Kubota Animal Clinic, Ozu, Japan (T. Noma); Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba (K. Doi, R. Nakashita)

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Figure 1

Regional divisions of Japan. Serum samples were collected from animals in all 8 regions (Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyusyu/Okinawa) during 2007–2023. Oz virus was first isolated from an Amblyomma testudinarium tick obtained in the Ehime Prefecture in the Shikoku region in 2017. A fatal human case of Oz virus infection occurred in 2023 in the Ibaraki Prefecture in the Kanto region.

Figure 1. Regional divisions of Japan. Serum samples were collected from animals in all 8 regions (Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyusyu/Okinawa) during 2007–2023. Oz virus was first isolated from an Amblyomma testudinarium tick obtained in the Ehime Prefecture in the Shikoku region in 2017. A fatal human case of Oz virus infection occurred in 2023 in the Ibaraki Prefecture in the Kanto region.

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1Current affiliation: Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan.

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