Presence of sandfly-borne phleboviruses of two antigenic complexes (Sandfly fever Naples virus and Sandfly fever Sicilian virus) in two different bio-geographical regions of Tunisia demonstrated by a microneutralisation-based seroprevalence study in dogs

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sakhria, Sonia ^a   Alwassouf, Sulaf ^b,c   Fares, Wasfi ^a   Bichaud, Laurence ^b,c   Dachraoui, Khalil ^a   Alkan, Cigdem ^b,c   Zoghlami, Ziad ^a   De Lamballerie, Xavier ^b,c   Zhioua, Elyes ^a   Charrel, Remi N ^b,c  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b Aix Marseille University IRD 190 Inserm 1207   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE MARSEILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Bunyaviridae; Dogs; Emerging; Mediterranean basin; Phleboviruses; Sand flies; Sentinels; Toscana virus

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CYTOTOXICITY; GUARD DOG; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS LONGICUSPIS; PHLEBOTOMUS PERNICIOUS; PHLEBOVIRUS; PUNIQUE VIRUS; SANDFLY FEVER NAPLES VIRUS; SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS; SEROPREVALENCE; TOSCANA VIRUS; TUNISIA; VIRUS MICRONEUTRALISATION; VIRUS MICRONEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DOG; DOG DISEASES; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHODIDAE; SERODIAGNOSIS; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PHLEBOVIRUS; PSYCHODIDAE; SANDFLY FEVER NAPLES VIRUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TUNISIA;

EID: 84964696538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-014-0476-8     Document Type: Article

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