¹School of Medicine, Shihezi University, Shihezi, CHINA
²NHC Key Laboratory of Prevention and Treatment of Central Asia High Incidence Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Shihezi University, Shihezi, CHINA
³College of Agriculture, Shihezi University, Shihezi, CHINA
⁴Department of “Beekeeping, Poultry and Fisheries” Non-profit Joint Stock Company, Kazakh National Agrarian University, Almaty, KAZAKHSTAN
⁵Department of Production and Processing Technology of Animal Husbandry Products, S. Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University, Nur-Sultan, KAZAKHSTAN
⁶Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Xinjiang Academy of Animal Science, Urumqi, CHINA
⁷College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi, CHINA DOI : 10.9775/kvfd.2021.26453 We aim to detect the presence of Tacheng tick virus 2 (TcTV-2) in ticks of southeastern Kazakhstan. A total of 205 ticks were collected and separated into four species, namely Hyalomma scupense, Dermacentor marginatus, Hyalomma asiaticum and Hyalomma anatolicum. The partial S segment of TcTV-2 was detected in individual RNA of separated ticks by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. 11.22% (23/205) of ticks were positive to the viral S segment. This is first report of presence of the TcTV-2 in Hy. scupense and Hy. anatolicum from Kazakhstan. This finding extends tick species and the geographic distribution of TcTV-2. Keywords : Hyalomma scupense, Hyalomma anatolicum, Kazakhstan, Tacheng tick virus 2