%0 Journal Article
%T Emergence of Toscana Virus, Romania, 2017-2018.
%A Popescu CP
%A Cotar AI
%A Dinu S
%A Zaharia M
%A Tardei G
%A Ceausu E
%A Badescu D
%A Ruta S
%A Ceianu CS
%A Florescu SA
%J Emerg Infect Dis
%V 27
%N 5
%D 05 2021
%M 33900182
%F 16.126
%R 10.3201/eid2705.204598
%X 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.