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
St George, T.D.; Doherty, R.L.; Carley, J.G.; Filippich, C.; Brescia, A.; Casals, J.; Kemp, D.H.; Brothers, N.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 34(2): 406-412
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9637 PMID: 2984951 Document Number: 252094
Pools of ticks, I. (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.