Prevalence of Bourbon and Heartland viruses in field collected ticks at an environmental field station in St. Louis County, Missouri, USA

Prevalence of Bourbon and Heartland viruses in field collected ticks at an environmental field station in St. Louis County, Missouri, USA

Heartland and Bourbon viruses are pathogenic tick-borne viruses putatively transmitted by Amblyomma americanum, an abundant tick species in Missouri. To assess the prevalence of these viruses in ticks, we collected 2778 ticks from eight sampling sites at Tyson Research Center, an environmental field...

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Main Authors: Ishmael D. Aziati, Derek McFarland Jnr, Avan Antia, Astha Joshi, Anahi Aviles-Gamboa, Preston Lee, Houda Harastani, David Wang, Solny A. Adalsteinsson, Adrianus C.M. Boon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-01-01
Series:Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
Subjects:
Bourbon virus
Heartland virus
Amblyomma americanum
Emerging tick-borne diseases
RT-qPCR
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X22001820

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