TY - JOUR AU - Newman, Brent AU - Sutton, William AU - Moncayo, Abelardo AU - Hughes, Holly AU - Taheri, Ali AU - Moore, Thomas AU - Schweitzer, Callie AU - Wang, Yong T1 - Heartland Virus in Lone Star Ticks, Alabama, USA T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 8 SP - 1954 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We detected Heartland virus (HRTV) in lone star nymphs collected in 2018 in northern Alabama, USA. Real-time reverse transcription PCR selective for the small segment of the HRTV genome and confirmatory sequencing of positive samples showed high identity with HRTV strains sequenced from Tennessee and Missouri. KW - HRTV KW - lone star tick KW - southeastern United States KW - surveillance KW - tick-borne illness KW - vector-borne infections KW - viruses KW - Heartland virus KW - Amblyomma americanum KW - Alabama KW - phleboviruses DO - 10.3201/eid2608.200494 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-0494_article ER - End of Reference