“…Currently, PPV-M isolates are present in several European countries or the Mediterranean basin including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey (Dallot et al, 2020;EPPO, 2020;Garcia et al, 2014, Gürcan & Ceylan, 2016. More recently, the presence of PPV-M isolates was also reported in Japan (Oishi et al, 2018).…”