Keystone Virus Isolated From a Florida Teenager With Rash and Subjective Fever: Another Endemic Arbovirus in the Southeastern United States?

John A Lednicky; Sarah K White; Caroline J Stephenson; Kartikeya Cherabuddi; Julia C Loeb; Nissin Moussatche; Andrew Lednicky; J Glenn Morris Jr

doi:10.1093/cid/ciy485

Keystone Virus Isolated From a Florida Teenager With Rash and Subjective Fever: Another Endemic Arbovirus in the Southeastern United States?

Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Jan 1;68(1):143-145. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy485.

Authors

John A Lednicky^{1

2}, Sarah K White^{1

2}, Caroline J Stephenson^{1

2}, Kartikeya Cherabuddi^{1

3}, Julia C Loeb^{1

2}, Nissin Moussatche^{1

3}, Andrew Lednicky¹, J Glenn Morris Jr^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville.
² Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville.
³ Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville.
⁴ Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville.

PMID: 29893806
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciy485

Abstract

Keystone virus, a California-serogroup orthobunyavirus, was first isolated in 1964 from mosquitoes in Keystone, Florida. There were no prior reports of isolation from humans, despite studies suggesting that ~20% of persons living in the region are seropositive. We report virus isolation from a Florida teenager with a rash and fever.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Bunyaviridae Infections / diagnosis*
Bunyaviridae Infections / pathology*
Bunyaviridae Infections / virology
Exanthema / etiology*
Fever / etiology*
Florida
Humans
Male
Orthobunyavirus / isolation & purification*
Plant Viruses