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17627448

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-7-13
pubmed:abstractText
Toscana virus (TOSV) is a sandfly-borne phlebovirus causing meningitis and encephalitis during the summer period. A significant proportion of infection results in asymptomatic or pauci-symptomatic forms. Although seroprevalence studies had been conducted in Italy, Spain, Greece, and Cyprus, no data were available from France at the outset of this study. We present here results of seroprevalence studies conducted in volunteer blood donors and in patients presenting with central nervous system (CNS) infections. Twelve percent of sera from blood donors and 18.9% of sera from patients hospitalized for CNS infection contained immunoglobulin G (IgG) reacting against TOSV or TOSV-related phleboviruses. This study confirms that TOSV and possibly TOSV-related phleboviruses actively circulates in southeastern France and demonstrates that a significant proportion of healthy blood donors and patients with CNS infections have a history of TOSV or TOSV-related phlebovirus infection.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1530-3667
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
275-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Prevalence of Toscana virus antibodies in volunteer blood donors and patients with central nervous system infections in southeastern France.
pubmed:affiliation
Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article