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,
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A novel tick-borne phlebovirus, closely related to severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus and Heartland virus, is a potential pathogen [PDF]
Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2018 Tick-borne viral diseases have attracted much attention in recent years because of their increasing incidence and threat to human health. Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome phlebovirus (SFTSV) and Heartland virus (HRTV) were recently identified ...
Shu Shen +23 more
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Oropuche virus: A virus present but ignored [PDF]
Revista Mvz Cordoba, 2015 Bunyaviruses are RNA viruses that affect animals and plants; they have five genera and four of them affect humans: Orthobunyavirus, Nairovirus, Phlebovirus and Hantavirus. All of them are Arbovirus, except Hantavirus.
Salim Mattar V., Marco González T.
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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 ...
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Prevalence of Bourbon and Heartland viruses in field collected ticks at an environmental field station in St. Louis County, Missouri, USA [PDF]
Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, 2023 Heartland and Bourbon viruses are pathogenic tick-borne viruses putatively transmitted by Amblyomma americanum, an abundant tick species in Missouri. To assess the prevalence of these viruses in ticks, we collected 2778 ticks from eight sampling sites at
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The Postfusion Structure of the Heartland Virus Gc Glycoprotein Supports Taxonomic Separation of the Bunyaviral Families Phenuiviridae and Hantaviridae [PDF]
Journal of Virology, 2018 Heartland virus (HRTV) is an emerging human pathogen that belongs to the newly defined family Phenuiviridae , order Bunyavirales .
Wen-Hai Feng, Yan Chai, Ruchao Peng
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Modeling Heartland virus disease in mice and therapeutic intervention with 4′-fluorouridine [PDF]
Journal of VirologyABSTRACT Heartland virus (HRTV) is an emerging tick-borne bandavirus that causes a febrile illness of varying severity in humans, with cases reported in eastern and midwestern regions of the United States. No vaccines or approved therapies are available to prevent or treat HRTV disease.
Tetsuro Ikegami +2 more
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Dermatological manifestations of tick-borne viral infections found in the United States [PDF]
Virology Journal, 2022 Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) are bacterial, viral, and parasitic diseases transmitted by ticks. Viral TBDs have increased in prevalence over the last decade with many new pathogenic viruses being discovered.
Ammie Rupani +2 more
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Pathogen Spillover to an Invasive Tick Species: First Detection of Bourbon Virus in Haemaphysalis longicornis in the United States [PDF]
Pathogens, 2022 Haemaphysalis longicornis (Neumann, 1901) (Acari: Ixodidae), the Asian longhorned tick, is an invasive tick species present in the USA since at least 2017 and has been detected in one-third of Virginia counties.
Alexandra N. Cumbie +2 more
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El rompecabezas de los nuevos agentes etiológicos en las Américas: ¿Virus Punta del Toro, otra pieza? [PDF]
Revista Mvz Cordoba, 2017 En un estudio reciente sobre fiebres tropicales indeferenciadas en una área endémica de Colombia, se demostró que no todas las fiebres agudas son causadas por el virus del dengue (1).
Salim Mattar V, Marco González Tous
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