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Trever M Koester1, Priyanka Timothy2, Jennifer K Meece3
1Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA trever_koester@hms.harvard.edu.
Clinical Medicine & Research
|February 16, 2020
Abstract:
Powassan virus lineage II (POWV), also known as deer tick virus, is an emerging tick-borne pathogen transmitted by Ixodes scapularis, the natural vector for the organisms that causes Lyme disease, babesiosis, and anaplasmosis. POWV is the only tick-borne flavivirus in North America known to cause disease in humans. We present a suspected pediatric case of POWV infection in northern Wisconsin.
