Tickborne Viruses in Western North America: I. Viruses isolated from Ixodes uriae in coastal Oregon in 1970

• Published in: Journal of Medical Entomology
• Main Authors: Thomas, L. A., Clifford, C. M., Yunker, C. E., Keirans, J. E., Patzer, E. R., Monk, G. E., Easton, E. R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1973
• Subjects: Artilces; Sakhalin
• Online Access: http://jme.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/10/2/165; https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/10.2.165

Thirty-six viruses, comprising at least 4 distinct serological groups were recovered from 98 pools of nymphal and adult Ixodes uriae collected in 2 seabird nesting sites along the Oregon coast. Five isolates were indistinguishable from Tuleniy virus, a group B agent previously recognized in this locality and in eastern U.S.S.R. Five strains were of an undescribed virus in the Kemerovo group, 11 represented a virus indistinguishable from, or closely related to, Uukuniemi virus (Uukuniemi group) of Finland and Czechoslovakia, 10 were related to an ungrouped agent, Sakhalin virus, previously described from eastern U.S.S.R., and 5 isolates were of mixtures of the last 3 entities.