Heartland Virus in Lone Star Ticks, Alabama, USA. [PDF]
Emerg Infect Dis, 2020 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
Newman BC +7 more
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Heartland Virus and Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Immunocompromised Patient, Missouri, USA. [PDF]
Emerg Infect Dis, 2018 Heartland virus is a suspected tickborne pathogen in the United States. We describe a case of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, then death, in an immunosuppressed elderly man in Missouri, USA, who was infected with Heartland virus.
Carlson AL +14 more
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Vertebrate Host Susceptibility to Heartland Virus. [PDF]
Emerg Infect Dis, 2016 Heartland virus (HRTV) is a recently described phlebovirus initially isolated in 2009 from 2 humans who had leukopenia and thrombocytopenia. Serologic assessment of domestic and wild animal populations near the residence of 1 of these persons showed high
Bosco-Lauth AM +8 more
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Seroprevalence of Heartland Virus Antibodies in Blood Donors, Northwestern Missouri, USA. [PDF]
Emerg Infect Dis, 2019 We estimated the seroprevalence of Heartland virus antibodies to be 0.9% (95% CI 0.4%–4.2%) in a convenience sample of blood donors from northwestern Missouri, USA, where human cases and infected ticks have been identified.
Lindsey NP +9 more
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Heartland Virus Infection in Elderly Patient Initially Suspected of Having Ehrlichiosis, North Carolina, USA. [PDF]
Emerg Infect DisWe report a patient in North Carolina, USA, with Heartland virus infection whose diagnosis was complicated by previous Ehrlichia chaffeensis infection. We identified E.
Barbarin AM +6 more
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Heartland virus: a novel and emerging tick-borne encephalitis
Revista Mvz Cordoba, 2016 Heartland virus (HRTV) is a Bunyaviridae, phlebovirus that it has recently emerged as the causative agent of human disease characterized by thrombocytopenia and leukopenia in the United States and China.
Salim Mattar V., Marco González T.
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Heartland Virus Neutralizing Antibodies in Vertebrate Wildlife, United States, 2009-2014. [PDF]
Emerg Infect Dis, 2015 Since its discovery in 2009, the tickborne Heartland virus (HRTV) has caused human illness in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee USA. To better assess the geographic distribution of HRTV, we used wildlife serology as an indicator.
Riemersma KK, Komar N.
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Heartland Virus: An Evolving Story of an Emerging Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Disease
Zoonotic Diseases, 2023 Heartland virus (HRTV) is an emerging tick-borne bandavirus that is capable of causing severe disease characterized by acute thrombocytopenia and lymphopenia.
Nicholas J. Haley
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Heartland virus-associated death in tennessee. [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2014 Heartland virus (HRTV) is a tick-borne phlebovirus recently described in Missouri that is associated with fever, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia. The virus has also been detected in Ambylomma americanum ticks.Here we report the first fatal case of HRTV disease in an 80-year-old Tennessee resident. He was hospitalized with fever, confusion, leukopenia,
Sherif R Zaki +2 more
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Investigation of Heartland Virus Disease Throughout the United States, 2013-2017. [PDF]
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2020 Abstract Background Heartland virus (HRTV) was first described as a human pathogen in 2012. From 2013 to 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) implemented a national protocol to evaluate patients for HRTV disease, better define its geographic distribution, epidemiology, and ...
Daniel M Pastula +2 more
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