Tick-borne Great Island Virus: (I) Identification of seabird host and evidence for co-feeding and viraemic transmission.

Great Island Virus (GIV) is an arbovirus present in the tick Ixodes uriae, a common ectoparasite of nesting seabirds. Common guillemot (Uria aalge) and black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) are the preferred and most abundant hosts of I. uriae on the Isle of May, Scotland. As part of a study to...

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Hlavní autoři: Nunn, M, Barton, T, Wanless, S, Hails, R, Harris, M, Nuttall, P
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: 2006