The findings appear in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. The paper includes a genetic analysis of the virus samples, which researchers isolated from ticks collected in central Georgia.
The research adds new evidence for how the tick-borne Heartland virus, first identified in Missouri in 2009, may evolve and spread geographically and from one organism to another.
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