Popescu CP, Cotar AI, Dinu S, Zaharia M, Tardei G, Ceausu E, Badescu D, Ruta S, Ceianu CS, Florescu SA. Emergence of Toscana Virus, Romania, 2017-2018.
Emerg Infect Dis 2021;
27:1482-1485. [PMID:
33900182 PMCID:
PMC8084517 DOI:
10.3201/eid2705.204598]
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Abstract
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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