| 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 |
| 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 |
| a case of central nervous system infection due to a novel sandfly fever virus (sfv) variant: sandfly fever turkey virus (sftv). | we present a case of viral encephalitis due to sandfly fever turkey virus (sftv), a novel phlebovirus genetically related to but distinct from sandfly fever sicilian virus (sfsv), recently identified in a 63-year-old female, via consensus pcr and sequencing. sftv was initially characterized in 2010 in samples from outbreaks of febrile diseases occurred during 2007-2008 and to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of an sftv-related central nervous system (cns) infection. | 2012 | 22336084 |
| 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 |