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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 34(2), 1985, pp. 406-412
Copyright © 1985 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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The Isolation of Arboviruses including a new Flavivirus and a new Bunyavirus from Ixodes (Ceratixodes) Uriae (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae) Collected at Macquarie Island, Australia, 1975–1979*

T. D. George St.1, R. L. Doherty2, J. G. Carley2, C. Filippich2, A. Brescia3, J. Casals3, D. H. Kemp1 AND N. Brothers4
1 CSIRO, Division of Tropical Animal Science, Indooroopilly, Brisbane 4068, Queensland, Australia
2 Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Bramston Terrace, Brisbane 4006, Queensland, Australia
3 Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (present address: Department of Neurology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
4 Department of National Parks and Wildlife, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Pools of ticks, Ixodes (Ceratixodes) uriae collected between 1975 and 1979 at Macquarie Island, yielded 33 strains of at least 4 different viruses: Nugget virus (Kemerovo group), 1 strain; Taggert virus (Sakhalin group) 9 strains; a previously undescribed flavivirus, related to Central European Tickborne encephalitis virus, for which the name "Gadgets Gully" is proposed, 9 strains; a virus serologically related to the Uukuniemi serogroup, family Bunyaviridae,** for which the name "Precarious Point" is proposed, 10 strains. Three isolates were mixtures of Nugget and Gadgets Gully viruses; the remaining virus strain remains unidentified.

Accepted for publication September 12, 1984.


* Arbovirus research at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) was supported by the Queensland State Government and Research at the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit (YARU) was supported by NIH Grant AI 10984 Contracts DAMD-17-81-C-1121 from the U.S. Army and N00014-78-C-0104 from the U.S. Navy, and grants from CSIRO and the World Health Organization.

Address reprint requests to: Librarian, CSIRO, Division of Tropical Animal Science, Long Pocket Laboratories, P.B. No. 3, P.O., Indooroopilly, Brisbane, Queensland 4068, Australia.


** Precarious Point virus was recently found to be a member of the Uukuniemi serogroup, Bunyaviridae at YARU.






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