Infections due to sandfly fever virus serotype Toscana in Spain
| Autor: | J Mendoza-Montero, S Oyonarte-Gómez, M I Gámez-Rueda, M de la Rosa-Fraile, José María Navarro-Marí |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
Serotype Adult Male Phlebovirus Adolescent Age Distribution Phlebotomus Fever medicine Prevalence Humans Serotyping Child Aged biology Toscana virus Aseptic meningitis Infant Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Virology Sandfly Infectious Diseases Spain Child Preschool Sandfly fever Naples virus Female Bunyaviridae |
| Zdroj: | Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 27(3) |
| ISSN: | 1058-4838 |
| Popis: | Of the sandfly fever viruses known to be human pathogens (serotypes Toscana [TOS], Sicilian [SFS], and Naples [SFN]), only TOS has demonstrated neurotropic activity. Infections by TOS have been reported in Mediterranean countries, but the virus was previously isolated only in Italy and Portugal. We isolated 15 strains of TOS between 1988 and 1996 from the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with acute aseptic meningitis in Granada, Spain. This finding led us to study the presence of antibodies to TOS, SFS, and SFN in 1,181 adults and 87 children from different regions of Spain. We found that the prevalence of antibodies to these viruses was 26.2%, 2.2, and 11.9%, respectively; these rates imply that TOS infections are common in Spain. |
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