Incubation Period for Neuroinvasive Toscana Virus Infections [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 Toscana virus (TOSV) is an emerging pathogen in the Mediterranean area and is neuroinvasive in its most severe form. Basic knowledge on TOSV biology is limited. We conducted a systematic review on travel-related infections to estimate the TOSV incubation
Lison Laroche +5 more
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Genetic Diversity of Toscana Virus [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 Distribution of Toscana virus (TOSV) is evolving with climate change, and pathogenicity may be higher in nonexposed populations outside areas of current prevalence (Mediterranean Basin). To characterize genetic diversity of TOSV, we determined the coding
Ximena Collao +10 more
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The phenuivirus Toscana virus makes an atypical use of vacuolar acidity to enter host cells. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2023 Toscana virus is a major cause of arboviral disease in humans in the Mediterranean basin during summer. However, early virus-host cell interactions and entry mechanisms remain poorly characterized. Investigating iPSC-derived human neurons and cell lines,
Jana Koch +15 more
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Emergence of Toscana Virus, Romania, 2017–2018 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 We describe a series of severe neuroinvasive infections caused by Toscana virus, identified by real-time reverse transcription PCR testing, in 8 hospitalized patients in Bucharest, Romania, during the summer seasons of 2017 and 2018.
Corneliu P. Popescu +9 more
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Cocirculation of Two Lineages of Toscana Virus in Croatia [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2017 No abstract ...
Nazli Ayhan +10 more
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Toscana virus encephalitis in Southwest Germany: a retrospective study [PDF]
BMC Neurology, 2021 Background Toscana virus (TOSV) is an arthropod-borne virus transmitted by phlebotomine sandflies (Phlebotomus sp.) widespread throughout the Mediterranean having the potential to cause meningoencephalitis in humans.
R. Dersch +5 more
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Broader Geographical Distribution of Toscana Virus in the Mediterranean Region Suggests the Existence of Larger Varieties of Sand Fly Vectors [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2020 Toscana virus (TOSV) is endemic in the Mediterranean basin, where it is transmitted by sand flies. TOSV can infect humans and cause febrile illness as well as neuroinvasive infections affecting the central and peripheral nervous systems. Although TOSV is
Nazli Ayhan +4 more
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Infectious Toscana Virus in Seminal Fluid of Young Man Returning from Elba Island, Italy [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 We report detecting infectious Toscana virus in the seminal fluid of a 25-year-old man from Italy returning from Elba Island. The presence of infectious virus in human semen adds Toscana virus to the long list of viruses detected in this genital fluid ...
Giulia Matusali +17 more
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Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2017 Sandfly fever viruses are transmitted by the bite of phlebotomine sandflies; serotypes sandfly fever Naples virus, sandfly fever Sicilian virus and sandfly fever Cyprus virus cause febrile illness, whereas Toscana virus (TOSV) may cause neuroinvasive ...
Serena Marchi +3 more
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Meningitis and epididymitis caused by Toscana virus infection imported to Switzerland diagnosed by metagenomic sequencing: a case report [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background We report a rare case of Toscana virus infection imported into Switzerland in a 23-year old man who travelled to Imperia (Italy) 10 days before onset of symptoms. Symptoms included both meningitis and as well epididymitis.
Fabian Tschumi +8 more
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