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Volume 28, Number 4—April 2022
Research

Isolation of Heartland Virus from Lone Star Ticks, Georgia, USA, 2019

Yamila Romer, Kayla Adcock, Zhuoran Wei, Daniel G. Mead, Oscar Kirstein, Steph Bellman, Anne Piantadosi, Uriel Kitron, and Gonzalo M. Vazquez-ProkopecComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Y. Romer, Z. Wei, O. Kirstein, S. Bellman, U. Kitron, G.M. Vazquez-Prokopec); University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, Athens, Georgia, USA (K. Adcock, D.G. Mead); Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta (A. Piantadosi)

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Table 1

Collected tick species and life cycle stages, Georgia, USA, 2018 and 2019

Tick species and stage 2018 2019 2019, site 1 2019, site 2
Amblyomma americanum
Adult 646 1,530 790 740
Nymph 2,265 4,853 2,844 2,009
Total 2,911 6,383 3,634 2,749
Pools
 272
 677
 339
 338
Amblyomma maculatum
Adult 30 10 6 4
Pools
 6
 9
 5
 4
Dermacentor variabilis
Adult 14 74 57 17
Pools
 3
 37
 27
 10
Ixodes scapularis
Adult 5 3 3 0
Pools 2 2 2 0

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