Isolation, full genomic characterization and neutralization-based human seroprevalence of Medjerda Valley virus, a novel sandfly-borne phlebovirus belonging to the Salehabad virus complex in northern Tunisia

Sulaf Alwassouf , Laurence Bichaud (1, 2) , Elyes Zhioua (3) , Khalil Dachraoui (3) , Mohamed Mensi (4) , Morgan Seston (5) , Xavier de Lamballerie , Cigdem Alkan , Sonia Sakhria (3) , Rémi N. Charrel , Wasfi Fares (3) , Géraldine Piorkowski (2)

1 IHU Marseille - Institut Hospitalier Universitaire Méditerranée Infection
2 EPV - Emergence des Pathologies Virales
3 Institut Pasteur de Tunis
4 Regional Health Department
5 LIF - Laboratoire d'informatique Fondamentale de Marseille - UMR 6166

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Domaines: Médecine humaine et pathologie

Sulaf Alwassouf, Laurence Bichaud, Elyes Zhioua, Khalil Dachraoui, Mohamed Mensi, et al.. Isolation, full genomic characterization and neutralization-based human seroprevalence of Medjerda Valley virus, a novel sandfly-borne phlebovirus belonging to the Salehabad virus complex in northern Tunisia. Journal of General Virology, 2016, 97 (3), pp.602--610. ⟨10.1099/jgv.0.000389⟩. ⟨hal-01356518⟩