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A comprehensive overview on sandfly fever

Journal of Acute Disease, 2021
Sandfly fever is a febrile emerging arboviral illness which is a huge threat posed to public health. Sandfly fever viruses (Sicilian, Naples, and Toscana) are endemic to the Mediterranean region.
Rouhullah Dehghani, Hamid Kassiri, Iman Khodkar, Saina Karami   +3 more
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Co-Circulation of Phleboviruses and Leishmania Parasites in Sand Flies from a Single Site in Italy Monitored between 2017 and 2020

Viruses, 2021
Sand flies transmit Leishmania infantum, which is responsible for causing leishmaniasis, as well as many phleboviruses, including the human pathogenic Toscana virus.
Mattia Calzolari, Giuseppe Romeo, Emanuele Callegari, Paolo Bonilauri, Chiara Chiapponi, Elena Carra, Gianluca Rugna, Roberta Taddei, Davide Lelli, Michele Dottori   +9 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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Cellular phosphoinositides and the maturation of bluetongue virus, a non-enveloped capsid virus. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Bluetongue virus (BTV), a member of Orbivirus genus in the Reoviridae family is a double capsid virus enclosing a genome of 10 double-stranded RNA segments. A non-structural protein of BTV, NS3, which is associated with cellular membranes and
Roy, Polly, Bishnupriya Bhattacharya, Bhattacharya, Bishnupriya, Polly Roy   +3 more
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Cocirculation of Two Lineages of Toscana Virus in Croatia [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2017
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Nazli Ayhan, Nazli Ayhan, Bulent Alten, Vladimir Ivovic, Franjo Martinkovic, Ozge E. Kasap, Yusuf Ozbel, Xavier de Lamballerie, Xavier de Lamballerie, Remi N. Charrel, Remi N. Charrel   +10 more
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Neglected vector-borne bacterial diseases and arboviruses in the Mediterranean area

New Microbes and New Infections, 2018
Arthropod vectors can transmit pathogenic microorganisms from one vertebrate to another during their blood meal. Although some vector-borne diseases have been eradicated in the Mediterranean area, such as malaria and dengue, recent endemic microorganisms
R.N. Charrel, J.-M. Berenger, M. Laroche, N. Ayhan, I. Bitam, P. Delaunay, P. Parola   +6 more
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Diagnóstico laboratorial de flebovírus (Vírus Toscana).

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2007
Viruses from the Phlebovirus genus (family Bunyaviridae) are arboviruses that can be transmitted to humans by mosquitoes (Rift Valey virus) or by sandflies.
Fátima Amaro, M Grazia Ciufolini, Giulietta Venturi, Cristiano Fiorentini, Maria João Alves   +4 more
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Toscana virus meningo-encephalitis: an important differential diagnosis for elderly travellers returning from Mediterranean countries

BMC Geriatrics, 2017
Background Elderly patients have a long list of differentials for causes of acute confusion and altered consciousness levels, including infectious agents.
James Veater, Farhan Mehedi, Chee Kay Cheung, Laura Nabarro, Jane Osborne, Nicholas Wong, Martin Wiselka, Julian W Tang   +7 more
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Identification of a Neutralizing Epitope on TOSV Gn Glycoprotein

Vaccines, 2021
Emerging and re-emerging viral infections have been an important public health problem in recent years. We focused our attention on Toscana virus (TOSV), an emergent neurotropic negative-strand RNA virus of the Phenuiviridae family.
Claudia Gandolfo, Shibily Prathyumn, Chiara Terrosi, Gabriele Anichini, Gianni Gori Savellini, Davide Corti, Luisa Bracci, Antonio Lanzavecchia, Gleyder Roman-Sosa, Maria Grazia Cusi   +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
doaj   +3 more sources