%0 Journal Article %J Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine %D 1965 %T The First Isolations of the Powassan Virus in New York State %A Whitney, E. %A H. Jamnback %K biology %X

Powassan virus was isolated from 2 pools of ticks (1 unidentified, the other Ixodes cookei) removed from 2 Marmota monax live-trapped in northern St. Lawrence County. Powassan virus was also isolated from tissues taken from the same 2 animals. Another strain of POW virus was recovered from the brain of a sick gray fox found in Broome County 200 miles to the south in New York State. The 2 tick strains were compared antigenically with the proto-type POW strain and were found to be antigenically similar.

%B Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine %V 119 %P 432-435 %G eng %U http://ebm.sagepub.com/content/119/2/432.short %R 10.3181/00379727-119-30202