Serologic Evidence of Powassan Virus Infection in Patients with Suspected Lyme Disease 1 .

Authors :: Frost HM
Schotthoefer AM
Thomm AM
Dupuis AP 2nd
Kehl SC
Kramer LD
Fritsche TR
Harrington YA
Knox KK
Source :: Emerging infectious diseases [Emerg Infect Dis] 2017 Aug; Vol. 23 (8), pp. 1384-1388.
Publication Year :: 2017
Abstract: Powassan virus (POWV) lineage II is an emerging tickborne flavivirus with an unknown seroprevalence in humans. In a Lyme disease-endemic area, we examined the seroreactivity to POWV in 2 patient cohorts and described the clinical features of the POWV-seroreactive patients. POWV disease might be less neuroinvasive than previously thought.

Subjects :: Adolescent
Aged
Antibodies, Viral immunology
Child, Preschool
Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne genetics
Female
Humans
Immunoglobulin G immunology
Immunoglobulin M immunology
Male
Middle Aged
Seroepidemiologic Studies
United States epidemiology
Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne immunology
Encephalitis, Tick-Borne epidemiology
Encephalitis, Tick-Borne immunology
Lyme Disease epidemiology

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