Immune Cell Targets of Infection at the Tick-Skin Interface during Powassan Virus Transmission.

Powassan virus (POWV) is a tick-borne flavivirus that can result in a severe neuroinvasive disease with 50% of survivors displaying long-term neurological sequelae. Human POWV cases have been documented in Canada, the United States, and Russia. Although the number of reported POWV human cases has in...

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Main Authors: Meghan E Hermance, Rodrigo I Santos, Brent C Kelly, Gustavo Valbuena, Saravanan Thangamani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4874601?pdf=render