| clinical and laboratory findings of a sandfly fever turkey virus outbreak in ankara. | sandfly fever (sf) is an arthropod-borne disease, which has not yet been reported from ankara. in the summer of 2007, the disease started to be seen in our region, surprisingly causing severe clinical presentations. this report reviews the clinical and laboratory findings of patients with sandfly virus infection of disease outbreaks in 2008 and 2009. a retrospective single-centre descriptive study was performed. clinically suspected cases were defined on the basis of epidemiologic history and cl ... | 2011 | 21824495 |
| molecular evidence indicates that phlebotomus major sensu lato (diptera: psychodidae) is the vector species of the recently-identified sandfly fever sicilian virus variant: sandfly fever turkey virus. | sandfly fever turkey virus (sftv) is a recently-discovered sandfly fever sicilian virus (sfsv) variant (family bunyaviridae, genus phlebovirus), characterized during retrospective evaluation of febrile disease outbreaks in turkey. in addition to causing sandfly fever, sftv was observed to induce elevation of liver enzymes, and to cause thrombocytopenia in affected individuals. this study was conducted to identify vectors for phleboviruses including sftv in ankara province, turkey, where evidence ... | 2012 | 22651385 |