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Toscana Virus Isolated from Sandflies, Morocco

Overview
Journal Parasit Vectors
Publisher Biomed Central
Specialties Parasitology
Tropical Medicine
Date 2015 Apr 18
PMID 25886511
Citations 12
Authors
Nargys Es-sette
Malika Ajaoud
Latifa Anga
Fouad Mellouki
Meryem Lemrani
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Abstract

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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