Possible tick-borne human enterovirus resulting in aseptic meningitis.

ABSTRACT: Enterovirus-specific genetic sequences were isolated from two Amblyomma americanum tick pools. Identical genetic sequences were later obtained from cerebrospinal fluid of a patient with aseptic meningitis and a recent history of tick attachment. These observations suggest the possibility of an emerging tick-borne human enterovirus associated with aseptic meningitis.

SUBMITTER: Freundt EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1169181 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature