Bunyaviruses are common in male and female Ixodes scapularis ticks in central Pennsylvania

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Volumn 2016, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Sakamoto, Joyce M ^a   Ng, Terry ^b,c   Suzuki, Yasutsugu ^a,d,e   Tsujimoto, Hitoshi ^a,e,f   Deng, Xutao ^b,g   Delwart, Eric ^b,g   Rasgon, Jason L ^a,e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BLOOD SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Metagenomics; Tick; Vector borne pathogen; Virus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BUNYAVIRUS INFECTION; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENNSYLVANIA; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84993949344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2324     Document Type: Article

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