little is known about sand fly fever with manifestations such as severe fever, headache and photophobia at the frontiers before the imposed war iraq against iran (1980-1988). in this article the seroepidemiological study of sand fly fever in different western provinces of iran were investigated during imposed war iraq against iran from march 1987 to march 1988. seroepidemiological studies were ...

a total of 1,497 serum and blood specimens from residents of 18 different iranian communities were examined by plaque reduction neutralization test for antibodies against four (neaples, sicilian, karimabad and salehabad) phlebotomus fever virus serotypes. neutralizing antibodies against the naples and sicilian serotypes were found in every community sampled, indicating that these viruses are wi...

Toscana virus (TOSV) is an arthropod-borne phlebovirus belonging to the Sandfly fever Naples virus species (genus Phlebovirus, family Bunyaviridae). Here, we report the complete coding sequences of six TOSV strains isolated from human patients having acquired the infection in southeastern France during a 12-year period.

1 Laboratório de Genética, Instituto Butantan, Secretaria de Estado da Saúde, Avenida Vital Brasil, 1500 Butantã, 05503-900 São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2 Department of Biology, Naples University Federico II, Via Mezzocannone 16, 80134 Naples, Italy 3 Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research...

Genomic and antigenic characterization of members of the Sandfly fever Naples virus (SFNV) complex reveals the presence of five clades that differ in their geographical distribution. Saint Floris and Gordil viruses, both found in Africa, form one clade; Punique, Granada and Massilia viruses, all isolated in the western Mediterranean, constitute a second; Toscana virus, a third; SFNV isolates fr...

OBJECTIVE Sandfly fever phleboviruses are endemic in Mediterranean countries. We report a febrile phlebovirus case in a Greek patient who presented signs of neuroinvasive infection. METHODS In summer 2010, a 20-year-old male was admitted to hospital with fever and lethargy; he was a resident of central Macedonia, northern Greece, where a large outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV) infections occu...

The cronology and findings of the series of infant deaths in Naples, Italy from June 1978 through February 1979 are available from other sources and are accordingly not recapitulated. :is part of the international group uf scientists invited by the Italian Government to participate in the investigations of these deaths, the Lahoratory of Iufectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health,...

Sandfly fever group viruses in the genus Phlebovirus (family Bunyaviridae) are widely distributed across the globe and are a cause of disease in military troops and indigenous peoples. We assessed the laboratory sensitivity and specificity of the Sand Fly Fever Virus Antigen Assay, a rapid dipstick assay designed to detect sandfly fever Naples virus (SFNV) and Toscana virus (TOSV) against a pan...

1 2 3 Genetics for Pseudoalteromonas provides tools to manipulate marine bacterial 4 virus PM2 5 6 7 Hanna M. Kivelä 1,2# , Stefania Madonna 3#¤ , Mart Krupovič 2 , 8 M. Luisa Tutino 3,4 and Jaana K. H. Bamford 1* 9 10 11 1) Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Nanoscience Center, P.O. Box 35, 12 FIN-40014, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. 13 2) Department of Biolo...

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