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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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Toscana virus isolated from sandflies, Morocco [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2015 To investigate the transmission of phleboviruses, a total of 7,057 sandflies were collected in well-known foci of cutaneous leishmaniasis and were identified to species level according to morphological characters.
Nargys Es-sette +4 more
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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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Bovine Lactoferrin Inhibits Toscana Virus Infection by Binding to Heparan Sulphate
Viruses, 2015 Toscana virus is an emerging sandfly-borne bunyavirus in Mediterranean Europe responsible for neurological diseases in humans. It accounts for about 80% of paediatric meningitis cases during the summer.
Agostina Pietrantoni +4 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 Toscana virus (TOSV, Phlebovirus, family Bunyaviridae) infection is one of the most prevalent arboviruses in Spain. Within the objectives of a multidisciplinary network, a study on the epidemiology of TOSV was conducted in Granada, in southern Spain. The
Sara Sanbonmatsu-Gámez +7 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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A Mediterranean arbovirus: the Toscana virus
Journal of Neurovirology, 2003 Toscana virus (Bunyaviridae family, Phlebovirus genus) is a sandfly fever virus responsible for human neurological infections. Sandfly viruses are transmitted by insect vectors (Phlebotomus species) and the infection is present in climatic areas that ...
CUSI M. G., VALASSINA M., VALENSIN P.
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Toscana virus infection in Catalonia (Spain) [PDF]
Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 2016 Toscana virus (TOSV), an arthropod-borne phlebovirus, is an important agent of acute meningitis and meningoencephalitis in the Mediterranean area. The epidemiology of the infection in humans in Catalonia is at present unknown.
Niubó, Jordi +10 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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Emergence of Toscana Virus in Europe
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 Toscana virus (TOSV) is an arthropodborne virus first identified in 1971 from the sandfly Phlebotomus perniciosus in central Italy. Many case reports in travelers and clinical research and epidemiologic studies conducted around the Mediterranean region ...
Rémi N. Charrel +7 more
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