Possible tick-borne human enterovirus resulting in aseptic meningitis.
Enterovirus-specific genetic sequences were isolated from two Amblyomma americanum tick pools. Identical genetic sequences were later obtained from cerebrospinal fluid of a patient with aseptic meningitis and a recent history of tick attachment. These observations suggest the possibility of an emerging tick-borne human enterovirus associated with aseptic meningitis.
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132, USA.
Eric C
EC
Freundt
Douglas C
DC
Beatty
Teresa
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Stegall-Faulk
Stephen M
SM
Wright
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000821:virology; D004770:Enterovirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004769:Enterovirus Infections / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D026863:Ixodidae / Q000821:virology*; D008297:Male; D008582:Meningitis, Aseptic / Q000821:virology*; D008587:Meningitis, Viral / Q000821:virology*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017282:Tick-Borne Diseases / Q000821:virology*