Emergence of Toscana Virus, Romania, 2017–2018

We describe a series of severe neuroinvasive infections caused by Toscana virus, identified by real-time reverse transcription PCR testing, in 8 hospitalized patients in Bucharest, Romania, during the summer seasons of 2017 and 2018. Of 8 patients, 5 died. Sequencing showed that the circulating viru...

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Autores principales: Popescu, Corneliu P., Cotar, Ani I., Dinu, Sorin, Zaharia, Mihaela, Tardei, Gratiela, Ceausu, Emanoil, Badescu, Daniela, Ruta, Simona, Ceianu, Cornelia S., Florescu, Simin A.
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8084517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33900182
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2705.204598
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author Popescu, Corneliu P.
Cotar, Ani I.
Dinu, Sorin
Zaharia, Mihaela
Tardei, Gratiela
Ceausu, Emanoil
Badescu, Daniela
Ruta, Simona
Ceianu, Cornelia S.
Florescu, Simin A.
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Cotar, Ani I.
Dinu, Sorin
Zaharia, Mihaela
Tardei, Gratiela
Ceausu, Emanoil
Badescu, Daniela
Ruta, Simona
Ceianu, Cornelia S.
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description We describe a series of severe neuroinvasive infections caused by Toscana virus, identified by real-time reverse transcription PCR testing, in 8 hospitalized patients in Bucharest, Romania, during the summer seasons of 2017 and 2018. Of 8 patients, 5 died. Sequencing showed that the circulating virus belonged to lineage A.
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spelling pubmed-80845172021-05-11 Emergence of Toscana Virus, Romania, 2017–2018 Popescu, Corneliu P. Cotar, Ani I. Dinu, Sorin Zaharia, Mihaela Tardei, Gratiela Ceausu, Emanoil Badescu, Daniela Ruta, Simona Ceianu, Cornelia S. Florescu, Simin A. Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch We describe a series of severe neuroinvasive infections caused by Toscana virus, identified by real-time reverse transcription PCR testing, in 8 hospitalized patients in Bucharest, Romania, during the summer seasons of 2017 and 2018. Of 8 patients, 5 died. Sequencing showed that the circulating virus belonged to lineage A. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8084517/ /pubmed/33900182 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2705.204598 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Popescu, Corneliu P.
Cotar, Ani I.
Dinu, Sorin
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Ceausu, Emanoil
Badescu, Daniela
Ruta, Simona
Ceianu, Cornelia S.
Florescu, Simin A.
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title_full_unstemmed Emergence of Toscana Virus, Romania, 2017–2018
title_short Emergence of Toscana Virus, Romania, 2017–2018
title_sort emergence of toscana virus, romania, 2017–2018
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