1. Emergence of Toscana Virus, Romania, 2017-2018.
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Popescu, Corneliu P., Cotar, Ani I., Dinu, Sorin, Zaharia, Mihaela, Tardei, Gratiela, Ceausu, Emanoil, Badescu, Daniela, Ruta, Simona, Ceianu, Cornelia S., and Florescu, Simin A.
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SUMMER , *HOSPITAL patients , *VIRUSES , *RNA virus infections , *RESEARCH , *RESEARCH methodology , *MEDICAL cooperation , *EVALUATION research , *COMPARATIVE studies , *RNA viruses - 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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