Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Sequenced Directly from Questing and Blood-Feeding Ticks Reveals Quasispecies Variance

• Naveed Asghar,

  Affiliation School of Natural Science, Technology & Environmental Studies, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Pontus Lindblom ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pontus Lindblom, Wessam Melik

  Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Wessam Melik ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pontus Lindblom, Wessam Melik

  Affiliation School of Natural Science, Technology & Environmental Studies, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden

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• Richard Lindqvist,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Virology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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• Mats Haglund,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, County Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden

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• Pia Forsberg,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden

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• Anna K. Överby ,

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Virology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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• Åshild Andreassen ,

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease Control, Department of Virology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

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• Per-Eric Lindgren ,

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Division of Medical Services, Department of Microbiology, County Hospital Ryhov, Jönköping, Sweden

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• Magnus Johansson

  * E-mail: magnus.johansson@oru.se

  Affiliations School of Natural Science, Technology & Environmental Studies, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden, School of Medicine, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, iRiSC - Inflammatory Response and Infection Susceptibility Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

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