Prevalence of Bourbon and Heartland viruses in field collected ticks at an environmental field station in St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
I. D. Aziati, D. McFarland, A. Antia, A. Joshi, A. Aviles Gamboa, P. Lee, H. H. Harastani, D. Wang, S. A. Adalsteinsson, A. Boon
The study assesses the prevalence of Bourbon and Heartland viruses in ticks at an environmental field station, finding 3.9% and 7.6% positivity rates respectively.
bioRxiv · Mar 23, 2022Microbiology