Toscana virus isolated from sandflies, Morocco

To investigate the transmission of phleboviruses, a total of 7,057 sandflies were collected in well-known foci of cutaneous leishmaniasis and were identified to species level according to morphological characters. Collected sandflies were tested by Nested PCR for the presence of Phleboviruses and su...

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Autores principales: Es-sette, Nargys, Ajaoud, Malika, Anga, Latifa, Mellouki, Fouad, Lemrani, Meryem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0826-1
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author Es-sette, Nargys
Ajaoud, Malika
Anga, Latifa
Mellouki, Fouad
Lemrani, Meryem
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description To investigate the transmission of phleboviruses, a total of 7,057 sandflies were collected in well-known foci of cutaneous leishmaniasis and were identified to species level according to morphological characters. Collected sandflies were tested by Nested PCR for the presence of Phleboviruses and subsequently by viral isolation on Vero cells. The corresponding products were sequenced. Toscana virus was isolated, for the first time, from 5 pools of sandflies. Hence, Toscana virus should be considered a potential risk that threatens public health and clinicians should be aware of the role of Toscana virus in cases of meningitis and encephalitis in Morocco.
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spelling pubmed-44153142015-05-01 Toscana virus isolated from sandflies, Morocco Es-sette, Nargys Ajaoud, Malika Anga, Latifa Mellouki, Fouad Lemrani, Meryem Parasit Vectors Letter to the Editor To investigate the transmission of phleboviruses, a total of 7,057 sandflies were collected in well-known foci of cutaneous leishmaniasis and were identified to species level according to morphological characters. Collected sandflies were tested by Nested PCR for the presence of Phleboviruses and subsequently by viral isolation on Vero cells. The corresponding products were sequenced. Toscana virus was isolated, for the first time, from 5 pools of sandflies. Hence, Toscana virus should be considered a potential risk that threatens public health and clinicians should be aware of the role of Toscana virus in cases of meningitis and encephalitis in Morocco. BioMed Central 2015-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4415314/ /pubmed/25886511 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0826-1 Text en © Es-Sette et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Es-sette, Nargys
Ajaoud, Malika
Anga, Latifa
Mellouki, Fouad
Lemrani, Meryem
Toscana virus isolated from sandflies, Morocco
title Toscana virus isolated from sandflies, Morocco
title_full Toscana virus isolated from sandflies, Morocco
title_fullStr Toscana virus isolated from sandflies, Morocco
title_full_unstemmed Toscana virus isolated from sandflies, Morocco
title_short Toscana virus isolated from sandflies, Morocco
title_sort toscana virus isolated from sandflies, morocco
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4415314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0826-1
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