High Rates of Neutralizing Antibodies to Toscana and Sandfly Fever Sicilian Viruses in Livestock, Kosovo

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• Journal Article:
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Personal Author:
  Ayhan, Nazli ; Sherifi, Kurtesh ; Taraku, Arber ; Bërxholi, Kristaq ; Charrel, Rémi N.
• Description:
  Toscana and sandfly fever Sicilian viruses (TOSV and SFSV, respectively), both transmitted by sand flies, are prominent human pathogens in the Old World. Of 1,086 serum samples collected from cattle and sheep during 2013 in various regions of Kosovo (Balkan Peninsula), 4.7% and 53.4% had neutralizing antibodies against TOSV and SFSV, respectively.
• Subjects:
  • Dispatch
  • High Rates of Neutralizing Antibodies to Toscana and Sandfly Fever Sicilian Viruses in Livestock, Kosovo
  • Bunyaviridae
  • Phlebovirus
  • arbovirus
  • Balkan
  • Mediterranean
  • vector-borne infections
  • viruses
  • Kosovo
  More +
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 23(6):989-992.
• ISSN:
  1080-6059 (online) ; 1080-6040 (print)
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Pubmed ID:
  28518045
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5443445
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights:
  Open Access
• CIO:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
• Division:
  Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID)
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/45986/cdc_45986_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.27 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
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