Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus, United Kingdom
Maya Holding
, Stuart D. Dowall, Jolyon M. Medlock, Daniel P. Carter, Steven T. Pullan, James Lewis, Richard Vipond, Mara S. Rocchi, Matthew Baylis, and Roger Hewson
Author affiliations: National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Liverpool, UK (M. Holding, S.D. Dowall, J.M. Medlock, D.P. Carter, R. Vipond, M.S. Rocchi, M. Baylis, R. Hewson); Virology and Pathogenesis Group, National Infection Service, Public Health England, Porton Down, UK (M. Holding, S.D. Dowall, R. Vipond, R. Hewson); Medical Entomology and Zoonoses Ecology, Emergency Response Department, Public Health England, Porton Down (M. Holding, J.M. Medlock); Genomics, National Infection Service, Public Health England, Porton Down (D.P. Carter, S.T. Pullan); Geographic Information Systems, Emergency Response Department, Public Health England, Porton Down (J. Lewis); Virus Surveillance Unit, Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (M.S. Rocchi); Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool (M. Baylis)
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Figure 1. Results for deer serum samples and ticks tested for tick-borne encephalitis virus, United Kingdom. A, B) Number of samples tested and seroprevalence of samples positive by ELISA (A) and HAI (B). C) Number of ticks tested by county; inset shows magnification of testing area with ticks positive by real-time reverse transcription PCR. HAI, hemagglutination inhibition. Source: Ordnance Survey data, © Crown copyright and database right 2019; and National Statistics data, © Crown copyright and database right 2019.
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