Update on powassan virus: Emergence of a North American tick-borne flavivirus

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2010, Pages 95-110

  Ebel, Gregory D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deer tick virus; Encephalitis; Ixodes; Tick borne encephalitis; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

CERVIDAE; DEER TICK VIRUS; FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; IXODES; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; POWASSAN VIRUS; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; TICK-BORNE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77449130212     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-112408-085446     Document Type: Review

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