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Emerg Infect Dis
; 25(4): 804-807, 2019 04.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30882312
ABSTRACT
We conducted a serosurvey of 230 persons in Maine, USA, who had been bitten by Ixodes scapularis or I. cookei ticks. We documented seropositivity for Borrelia burgdorferi (13.9%) and B. miyamotoi (2.6%), as well as a single equivocal result (0.4%) for Powassan encephalitis virus.
Subject(s)
Borrelia burgdorferi , Borrelia , Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne , Ixodes/microbiology , Ixodes/virology , Tick-Borne Diseases/microbiology , Tick-Borne Diseases/virology , Animals , Borrelia/isolation & purification , Borrelia burgdorferi/isolation & purification , Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne/isolation & purification , Humans , Maine/epidemiology , Seroepidemiologic Studies , Tick Bites/microbiology , Tick Bites/virology , Tick-Borne Diseases/transmission
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Clin Infect Dis
; 65(6): 1043-1046, 2017 Sep 15.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28903511
ABSTRACT
Deer tick virus (DTV), a genetic variant (lineage II) of Powassan virus, is a rare cause of encephalitis in North America. We report a fatal case of DTV encephalitis following a documented bite from an Ixodes scapularis tick and the erythema migrans rash associated with Lyme disease.
