Sandfly Fever in the Middle East

Sandfly Fever

Sik,?My thanks are due to Lieutenant Stott and Major Rogers for their criticisms of my paper published in the " Gazette " for August last. Since its publication, Lieutenant-Colonel Birt, K. A.M.C., has very kindly sent me reprints of his recent articles in the Journal of the R. A. M. C. on " Phlebotomus Fever in Malta and Crete" and " Sandfly Fever in India." His clinical description of the fev...

Sandfly Fever

Sandfly Fever and Dengue

Sandfly-Borne Phlebovirus Isolations from Turkey: New Insight into the Sandfly fever Sicilian and Sandfly fever Naples Species

BACKGROUND Many studies have presented virus sequences which suggest the existence of a variety of putative new phleboviruses transmitted by sandflies in the Old World. However, in most of these studies, only partial sequences in the polymerase or the nucleoprotein genes were characterised. Therefore to further our understand of the presence and potential medical importance of sandfly-borne phl...

Sandfly Fever Sicilian Virus, Algeria

To determine whether sandfly fever Sicilian virus (SFSV) is present in Algeria, we tested sandflies for phlebovirus RNA. A sequence closely related to that of SFSV was detected in a Phlebotomus ariasi sandfly. Of 60 human serum samples, 3 contained immunoglobulin G against SFSV. These data suggest SFSV is present in Algeria.