Tick Saliva Enhances Powassan Virus Transmission to the Host, Influencing Its Dissemination and the Course of Disease
Powassan virus (POWV) is an encephalitic tick-borne flavivirus which can result in serious neuroinvasive disease with up to a 10% case fatality rate. The study objective was to determine whether the salivary gland extract (SGE) from Ixodes scapularis ticks facilitates the transmission and disseminat...
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American Society for Microbiology
2015
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4505606/ |