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Emergence of Toscana virus in the mediterranean area

World Journal of Virology, 2012
Toscana virus (TOSV) is an arthropod-borne virus, identified in 1971, from Phlebotomus perniciosus and Phlebotomus perfiliewi in central Italy. TOSV belongs to the Phlebovirus genus within the Bunyaviridae family. As other bunyaviruses, the genome of TOSV consists of 3 segments (S for small, M for Medium, and L for Large) respectively encoding non ...
Rémi N. Charrel
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Susceptibility of diverse sand fly species to Toscana virus. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Toscana virus (TOSV) is an emerging but neglected human pathogen currently circulating around the Mediterranean basin including North Africa. Human illness ranges from asymptomatic or mild flu-like syndromes to severe neurological diseases such as ...
Magdalena Jancarova, Nikola Polanska, Adrien Thiesson, Frédérick Arnaud, Marketa Stejskalova, Marketa Rehbergerova, Alain Kohl, Barbara Viginier, Petr Volf, Maxime Ratinier   +9 more
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Numb-associated kinases regulate sandfly-borne Toscana virus entry [PDF]

Emerging Microbes and Infections
Sandfly-borne Toscana virus (TOSV) is an enveloped tri-segmented negative single-strand RNA Phlebovirus. It is an emerging virus predominantly endemic in southwestern Europe and Northern Africa.
Yarden Moalem, Rodolfo Katz, Anand G. Subramaniam, Yehonathan Malis, Yakey Yaffe, Nofit Borenstein-Auerbach, Keshet Tadmor, Roey Raved, Ben M. Maoz, Ji Seung Yoo, Yaniv Lustig, Chen Luxenburg, Eran Perlson, Shirit Einav, Ella H. Sklan   +14 more
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Imported aseptic meningitis due to Toscana virus infection in Austria since 2006, including a case series from 2023. [PDF]

Int J Infect Dis
Szojka ZI, Florian DM, Cabal A, Ruppitsch W, Aberle SW, Otto F, Camp JV.   +6 more
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Toscana Virus Meningoencephalitis in Upper Bavaria. [PDF]

Dtsch Arztebl Int, 2022
Wenzel M, Afzali AM, Hoffmann D, Zange S, Georgi E, Hemmer B.   +5 more
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Detection of Specific Antibodies against Toscana Virus among Blood Donors in Northeastern Italy and Correlation with Sand Fly Abundance in 2014 [PDF]

Microorganisms, 2020
Toscana virus (TOSV) is a Phlebovirus transmitted by phlebotomine sand flies and is an important etiological agent of summer meningitis in the Mediterranean basin.
Silvia Morini, Mattia Calzolari, Giada Rossini, Nadia Pascarelli, Andrea Porcellini, Vanda Randi, Maria Carla Re, Alessandro Albieri, Paolo Bonilauri, Romeo Bellini, Nazli Ayhan, Remi Charrel, Stefania Varani   +12 more
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Two strains of Toscana virus show different virulence and replication capacity in mice and cell culture models. [PDF]

Virulence
Roy M, Lacôte S, Desloire S, Thiesson A, Pulido C, Aurine N, Mathieu C, Pain B, Marianneau P, Arnaud F, Ratinier M.   +10 more
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Epidemiology, Isolation, and Genetic Characterization of Toscana Virus in Algerian Patients Displaying Neurological Infection, 2016-2018. [PDF]

IJID Reg, 2023
Benbetka C, Hachid A, Benallal KE, Khardine FA, Ayhan N, Bouredjoul N, Boulehbal WM, Bellila D, Khaldi A, Charrel R.   +9 more
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Toscana Virus RNA in Sergentomyia minuta Flies

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
To the Editor: Toscana virus (TOSV) (family Bunyaviridae, genus Phlebovirus) is an arthropodborne virus transmitted by sandflies. Reports of infections in travelers, clinical research, and epidemiologic studies have shown that TOSV affects the central nervous system and is a major cause of meningitis and encephalitis in Mediterranean countries in which
Rémi N. Charrel, Arezki Izri, Sarah Temmam, Xavier de Lamballerie, Philippe Parola   +4 more
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Unusual Manifestation of Toscana Virus Infection, Spain

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009
To the Editor: Toscana virus (TOSV) causes acute meningitis and meningoencephalitis in Mediterranean countries (1). In Spain, neurologic TOSV infection has been reported since 1988. All cases have been self-limited aseptic meningitis (2). Since 2003, we have routinely investigated TOSV in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens from patients with suspected
Sara Sanbonmatsu-Gámez, Mercedes Pérez-Ruiz, Begoña Palop-Borrás, José María Navarro-Marí   +3 more
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