Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2020)

Heartland Virus in Lone Star Ticks, Alabama, USA

  • Brent C. Newman,
  • William B. Sutton,
  • Abelardo C. Moncayo,
  • Holly R. Hughes,
  • Ali Taheri,
  • Thomas C. Moore,
  • Callie J. Schweitzer,
  • Yong Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2608.200494
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 8
pp. 1954 – 1956

Abstract

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We detected Heartland virus (HRTV) in lone star nymphs collected in 2018 in northern Alabama, USA. Real-time reverse transcription PCR selective for the small segment of the HRTV genome and confirmatory sequencing of positive samples showed high identity with HRTV strains sequenced from Tennessee and Missouri.

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