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

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 23; no. 6; pp. 989 - 992
• Main Authors: Ayhan, Nazli, Sherifi, Kurtesh, Taraku, Arber, Bërxholi, Kristaq, Charrel, Rémi N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01-06-2017; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Animals; Antibodies, Neutralizing - blood; Antibodies, Viral - blood; arbovirus; Balkan; Bunyaviridae; Bunyaviruses; Cattle; Dispatch; Epidemiological Monitoring; High Rates of Neutralizing Antibodies to Toscana and Sandfly Fever Sicilian Viruses in Livestock, Kosovo; Humans; Incidence; Insect Vectors - virology; Kosovo - epidemiology; Life Sciences; Livestock; Livestock - virology; Mediterranean; Microbiology and Parasitology; Phlebotomus Fever - blood; Phlebotomus Fever - epidemiology; Phlebotomus Fever - transmission; Phlebotomus Fever - veterinary; Phlebovirus; Phlebovirus - isolation & purification; Physiological aspects; Psychodidae - virology; Sandfly fever Naples virus - isolation & purification; Sheep - virology; vector-borne infections; Virology; Kosovo; Mediterranean; Balkan; sand flies; viruses; vector-borne infections; Bunyaviridae; Kosovo; sandfly fever Sicilian virus; Toscana virus; Phlebovirus; arbovirus
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2306.161929

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.