Emergence of Toscana Virus, Romania, 2017-2018.

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.

SUBMITTER: Popescu CP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8084517 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature