Rodents are the most abundant and diversified order of living mammals in the world.
Already since the Middle Ages we know that they can contribute to human disease, as black …

Background Powassan virus (POWV), a flavivirus discovered in 1958, causes sporadic but
severe cases of encephalitis in humans. Since 2007, the number of human Powassan cases …

Powassan virus (POWV) disease is a rare human disease caused by a tick-borne
encephalitis group flavivirus maintained in a transmission cycle between Ixodes cookei and …

A significant number of diseases are carried by insects, ticks, mites and rodents, and these
diseases are far more common than is often realised. New diseases are regularly …

The discovery of the flavivirus, West Nile (WN) virus, in the summer of 1999 in the USA
dramatically altered the landscape of arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) disease ecology and …

We report the isolation and detailed characterization of the novel strain, Partizansk/2006, of
Powassan virus (POWV) from a human case of infection, which occurred in Primorsky krai …

Conclusions: These are the first diagnosed human POWV infections in Wisconsin. Because
all 3 patients were initially identified as having other arboviral infections using commercial …

Peromyscus leucopus populations exhibit unstable population dynamics. Mathematical
models predict instability with chronic parasite infections that reduce host fecundity when the …

This series of articles describes the first large-scale experiment designed to explore the
efficacy of reducing the risk of tick-borne disease in highly endemic communities of the …

Discussion Powassan virus is a rare arbovirus that belongs to the Flaviviridae family. It is
transmitted via ticks, such as Ixodes cookie, Ixodes scapularis, Ixodes marxi, and …