A focus of deer tick virus transmission in the northcentral United States

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作者
Ebel, GD [1 ]
Foppa, I [1 ]
Spielman, A [1 ]
Telford, SR [1 ]
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[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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10.3201/eid0504.990423
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R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];
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100102 ;
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We screened salivary glands from adult deer ticks collected near Spooner and Hayward, Wisconsin, to determine whether deer tick virus, a recently described flavivirus, occurs with other tickborne agents in the upper Midwest. Intraacinar inclusions suggestive of replicating virus were detected in 4 (4.6%) of 87 ticks. The virus was isolated by suckling-mouse inoculation.
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