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Ticks Associated with Macquarie Island Penguins Carry Arboviruses from Four Genera PLoS ONE, 2009 (Ref: 13598)
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Macquarie Island, a small subantarctic island, is home to rockhopper, royal and king penguins, which are often infested with the globally distributed seabird tick, Ixodes uriae. A flavivirus, an orbivirus, a phlebovirus, and a nairovirus were isolated from these ticks and partial sequences obtained.

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