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Phylodynamic analysis of the historical spread of Toscana virus around the Mediterranean. / Cusi, Maria Grazia; Gandolfo, Claudia; Gori Savellini, Gianni et al.
In: Biorxiv, 30.07.2018.

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Cusi, M. G., Gandolfo, C., Gori Savellini, G., Terrosi, C., Sadler, R., & Gatherer, D. (2018). Phylodynamic analysis of the historical spread of Toscana virus around the Mediterranean. Biorxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/380477

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Cusi MG, Gandolfo C, Gori Savellini G, Terrosi C, Sadler R, Gatherer D. Phylodynamic analysis of the historical spread of Toscana virus around the Mediterranean. Biorxiv. 2018 Jul 30. doi: 10.1101/380477

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Cusi, Maria Grazia ; Gandolfo, Claudia ; Gori Savellini, Gianni et al. / Phylodynamic analysis of the historical spread of Toscana virus around the Mediterranean. In: Biorxiv. 2018.

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title = "Phylodynamic analysis of the historical spread of Toscana virus around the Mediterranean",
abstract = "All available sequences of the three genome segments of Toscana virus with date and location of sampling were analysed using Bayesian phylodynamic methods. We estimate that extant Toscana virus strains had a common ancestor in the late 16th to early 17th century AD, in territories controlled by the Ottoman Empire, giving rise to an ancestral genotype A/B in north Africa and to genotype C in the Balkans. Subsequent spread into western Europe may have occurred during the period of European colonization of north Africa in the 19th and early 20th centuries AD, establishing genotypes A and B in Italy and Spain respectively. Very little positive evolutionary selection pressure is detectable in Toscana virus, suggesting that the virus has become well adapted to its human hosts. There is also no convincing evidence of reassortment between genome segments, despite genotypes A and B now co-circulating in several countries.",
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