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Colorado tick fever; isolation of the virus from Dermacentar andersoni in Nature and a laboratory study of the transmission of the virus in the tick.

Lloyd Florio, Mabel Stewart Miller, Edward R. Mugrage

PubMed · 1950 · 31 citations · 0 references

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Life SciencesBiologyMicrobiologyInfectious Disease EpidemiologyMolecular VirologyVirologyDisease Transmission In InsectsTick BiologyTick-borne DiseasesVector-borne TransmissionVector-borne ZoonosesZoonotic Disease TransmissionTick Pathogen TransmissionTick-borne Pathogen DynamicsTick-borne Pathogen TransmissionTick-borne PathogensTick-borne TransmissionTick-borne Viral ZoonosesVector-borne Pathogen Transmission

Abstract

The virus of Colorado tick fever is transovarially transmitted in the wood tick. Virus acquired in either the larval or nymphal stages is likewise transmitted to the adult.