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Ticks Associated with Macquarie Island Penguins Carry Arboviruses from Four Genera

Macquarie Island, a small subantarctic island, is home to rockhopper, royal and king penguins, which are often infested with the globally distributed seabird tick, Ixodes uriae. A flavivirus, an orbivirus, a phlebovirus, and a nairovirus were isolated from these ticks and partial sequences obtained....

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Autores principales: Major, Lee, Linn, May La, Slade, Robert W., Schroder, Wayne A., Hyatt, Alex D., Gardner, Joy, Cowley, Jeff, Suhrbier, Andreas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2632750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19194498
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004375