TY - JOUR AU - Popescu, Corneliu AU - Cotar, Ani AU - Dinu, Sorin AU - Zaharia, Mihaela AU - Tardei, Gratiela AU - Ceausu, Emanoil AU - Badescu, Daniela AU - Ruta, Simona AU - Ceianu, Cornelia AU - Florescu, Simin T1 - Emergence of Toscana Virus, Romania, 2017–2018 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 5 SP - 1482 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We describe a series of severe neuroinvasive infections caused by Toscana virus, identified by real-time reverse transcription PCR testing, in 8 hospitalized patients in Bucharest, Romania, during the summer seasons of 2017 and 2018. Of 8 patients, 5 died. Sequencing showed that the circulating virus belonged to lineage A. KW - Toscana virus KW - Toscana phlebovirus KW - TOSV KW - Phlebovirus KW - Phenuiviridae KW - encephalitis KW - adults KW - phylogenetic analysis KW - viruses KW - Romania DO - 10.3201/eid2705.204598 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/5/20-4598_article ER - End of Reference