Sawgrass Virus: A Newly Described Arbovirus in Florida

G. E. Sather Encephalitis Research Center, Florida State Board of Health, Department of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Tampa

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A. L. Lewis Encephalitis Research Center, Florida State Board of Health, Department of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Tampa

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W. Jennings Encephalitis Research Center, Florida State Board of Health, Department of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Tampa

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J. O. Bond Encephalitis Research Center, Florida State Board of Health, Department of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Tampa

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1970.19.319
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Volume 19: Issue 2
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319–326
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Nine strains of a new arbovirus have been isolated from the ticks Dermacentor variabilis and Haemaphysalis leporispalustris collected in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. It has been named Sawgrass virus. The virus passes a 0.22 µ Millipore filter, is sensitive to sodium deoxycholate, and is probably a ribonucleic acid virus. No antigenic relation has been shown with 23 other tick viruses nor with representatives of other viruses as shown by tests with antiserum to 50 other arboviruses. Tacaribe and Tamiami viruses. and eight common murine viruses. Significant neutralizing-antibody levels were not found in the serum of small animals collected in the areas from which the animals harboring infected ticks were collected, nor in a small sample of human serum collected from persons considered at high risk.
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Copyright © 1970 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1970
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04 Aug 1969
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Published Online:
Mar 1970
Cover The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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0002-9637
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