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.
Keywords: Phenuiviridae; Phlebovirus; Romania; TOSV; Toscana phlebovirus; Toscana virus; adults; encephalitis; phylogenetic analysis; viruses.