Valassina M, Cusi M G, Valensin P E
Department of Molecular Biology, University of Siena, Italy.
J Clin Microbiol. 1996 Oct;34(10):2500-2. doi: 10.1128/jcm.34.10.2500-2502.1996.
The sand fly-transmitted Toscana virus is recognized as an etiologic agent of an aseptic meningitis with a long convalescence. This infection has been reported overall in many tourists or in a seronegative population circulating in endemic Mediterranean areas (Italy, Portugal, Egypt, and Cyprus). We report a cluster of acute Toscana virus infections in the local population during the summer of 1995. Twenty-one clinical cases of meningitis were investigated for the presence of Toscana virus by nested PCR performed on the S segment of the virus RNA extracted from cerebrospinal fluid samples.
白蛉传播的托斯卡纳病毒被认为是一种导致无菌性脑膜炎且恢复期较长的病原体。总体而言，这种感染在许多游客或在地中海流行地区（意大利、葡萄牙、埃及和塞浦路斯）流动的血清阴性人群中均有报道。我们报告了1995年夏季当地人群中发生的一组急性托斯卡纳病毒感染病例。通过对从脑脊液样本中提取的病毒RNA的S片段进行巢式PCR，对21例脑膜炎临床病例进行了托斯卡纳病毒检测。
