Studies on bunyaviridae including Zaliv Terpeniya virus isolated fromIxodes uriae ticks (Acarina: Ixodidae) in Brittany, France

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Abstract
Three viruses were isolated from ticks parasitizing nesting seabirds on Cape Sizun, Brittany, France, during the spring of 1979: Soldado like virus (Bunyaviridae, Nairovirus genus) fromOrnithodoros (Alectorobius) maritimus (Argasidae), Zaliv Terpeniya (ZT) virus (Bunyaviridae, Uukuvirus genus) fromIxodes (Ceratixodes) uriae (Ixodidae) parasitizing chicks of the kittiwake(Rissa tridactyla), and a virus of the Sakhalin group fromI. (C.) uriae. Certain virological and ultrastructural properties of ZT virus were studied and the antigenic relationships between the French isolate and other UUK serogroup viruses fromI. (C.) uriae were analyzed in the complement fixation and immune diffusion tests. Cape Sizun is notable for the unusual presence of both argasid(Ornithodoros) and ixodid(Ixodes) ticks infesting seabirds in adjacent niches in a single locality, where they are infected by different viruses.