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- Title
Phlebovirus infections in Greece.
- Authors
Papa, Anna; Kontana, Anastasia; Tsergouli, Katerina
- Abstract
Sandfly fever viruses are endemic in the Mediterranean region causing to humans asymptomatic or mild infections to severe neurological syndromes. In order to investigate the epidemiology of phlebovirus infections in Greece, samples from 499 patients with acute febrile illness (50.2% accompanied by neurological symptoms) were tested during 2010-2014 by serological and molecular methods. Phlebovirus infection was detected in 40 (8%) patients, 25 of them presenting acute neurological infection. Most cases were observed in the summer, with a peak in August. Increased number of cases was observed in 2013, and three of them were observed in Athens. Toscana virus lineage C RNA was detected in one encephalitis case, while the serological results showed that most cases were caused by phleboviruses belonging to the sandfly fever Naples virus serocomplex. This study provided the first insight into the epidemiology of phleboviral disease in Greece. J. Med. Virol. 87:1072-1076, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Publication
Journal of Medical Virology, 2015, Vol 87, Issue 7, p1072
- ISSN
0146-6615
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jmv.24163