1. High Rates of Neutralizing Antibodies to Toscana and Sandfly Fever Sicilian Viruses in Livestock, Kosovo
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Kurtesh Sherifi, Rémi N. Charrel, Kristaq Berxholi, Arber Taraku, Nazli Ayhan, Emergence des Pathologies Virales (EPV), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM), University of Prishtina, Agricultural University of Tirana, This work was supported in part by the European Virus Archive Goes Global project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 653316, the EDENext FP7-no. 261504 European Union project and this paper is catalogued by the EDENext Steering Committee as EDENext469 (http://www.edenext.eu). The work of N.A. and R.N.C. was conducted under the frame of EurNegVec COST Action TD1303. N.A. is supported by the Fondation Mediterranee Infection., European Project: 653316,H2020,H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015,EVAg(2015), European Project: 261504,EC:FP7:HEALTH,FP7-HEALTH-2010-single-stage,EDENEXT(2011), BUISINE, Soline, European Virus Archive goes global - EVAg - - H20202015-04-01 - 2019-03-31 - 653316 - VALID, and Biology and control of vector-borne infections in Europe - EDENEXT - - EC:FP7:HEALTH2011-01-01 - 2015-06-30 - 261504 - VALID
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0301 basic medicine ,Phlebovirus ,Epidemiology ,Kosovo ,vector-borne infections ,lcsh:Medicine ,Mediterranean ,Antibodies, Viral ,0302 clinical medicine ,Phlebotomus Fever ,Sandfly Fever Sicilian Virus ,[SDV.MP.VIR] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology ,Toscana virus ,biology ,Incidence ,Dispatch ,3. Good health ,Infectious Diseases ,Epidemiological Monitoring ,[SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology ,Bunyaviridae ,Microbiology (medical) ,Livestock ,030231 tropical medicine ,Arbovirus ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,Balkan ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,viruses ,sandfly fever Sicilian virus ,Sheep ,lcsh:R ,Sandfly fever Naples virus ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Antibodies, Neutralizing ,Virology ,Insect Vectors ,Sandfly ,030104 developmental biology ,arbovirus ,High Rates of Neutralizing Antibodies to Toscana and Sandfly Fever Sicilian Viruses in Livestock, Kosovo ,Cattle ,Psychodidae ,sand flies - Abstract
Kurtesh Sherifi and Rémi N. Charrel contributed equally to this article; International audience; 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.
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