Abstract
Deer tick virus (DTV), a genetic variant (lineage II) of Powassan virus, is a rare cause of encephalitis in North America. We report a fatal case of DTV encephalitis following a documented bite from an Ixodes scapularis tick and the erythema migrans rash associated with Lyme disease.
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Cavanaugh, C. E., Muscat, P. L., Telford, S. R., Goethert, H., Pendlebury, W., Elias, S. P., … Smith, R. P. (2017). Fatal deer tick virus infection in Maine. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 65(6), 1043–1046. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix435
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