Abstract
Toscana virus (TOSV) is an arthropod-borne virus belonging to the sandfly fever Naples virus species within the genus Phlebovirus. We report here the complete coding sequences of three TOSV strains belonging to lineage B and isolated from sandflies trapped in the Southeast of France between 2009 and 2013.
Highlights
Toscana virus (TOSV) is an arthropod-borne virus belonging to the sandfly fever Naples virus species within the genus Phlebovirus
Other strains were later isolated in Italy and other western Mediterranean countries (Portugal, Spain, and France) [4, 5], as well as in the eastern Mediterranean area (Greece, Croatia, and Turkey) and in northern Africa (Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria) [6,7,8]
Lineage A strains have been identified in Italy, France, Tunisia, Algeria, and Turkey [5,6,7], and lineage B strains have been detected in Spain, Portugal, France, Morocco, and Turkey [8, 9]
Summary
Toscana virus (TOSV) is an arthropod-borne virus belonging to the sandfly fever Naples virus species within the genus Phlebovirus. TOSV is an arthropod-borne virus transmitted by phlebotomine flies in the Old World. TOSV is an enveloped virus with a single-strand negative-sense RNA genome, which consists of three segments (large [L], medium [M], and small [S]).
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