| characterization of a sandfly fever sicilian virus isolated during a sandfly fever epidemic in turkey. | phleboviruses cause sandfly fever but isolates are rare. | 2010 | 20579934 |
| potential animal reservoirs of toscana virus and coinfections with leishmania infantum in turkey. | toscana virus (tosv), a sandfly-borne phlebovirus, is an important agent of human meningoencephalitis in the mediterranean region, for which vertebrates acting as reservoirs have not yet been determined. this study investigates tosv and leishmania infections in dogs, cats, sheep, and goats from adana and mersin provinces in southeastern turkey. tosv neutralizing antibodies were demonstrated in 40.4% of the dog and 4% of the goat samples. tosv rna was detected in 9.9% of the 252 samples that main ... | 2015 | 25711610 |
| [acute toscana virus infection in an anti-hiv positive patient]. | sandfly fever is an infectious disease transmitted to people through sandfly bites. it usually takes three days and causes chills, high fever, headache, nausea-vomiting and myalgia. the causative agent, namely sandfly fever virus (sfv), is a member of the bunyaviridae family, phlebovirus genus. toscana virus (tosv) is a serotype of sfv, as so sicilian and naples viruses. seroprevalence studies have demonstrated that sfv infections which have mild symptoms or asymptomatic, can be overcome. studie ... | 2014 | 24506728 |