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Over 100 Years of Rift Valley Fever: A Patchwork of Data on Pathogen Spread and Spillover

medRxiv, 2021
During the past 100 years, Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV), a mosquito-borne virus, has caused potentially lethal disease in livestock, and has been associated with significant economic losses and trade bans.
G. Bron, K. Strimbu, H. Cecilia, A. Lerch, Sean M. Moore, Q. Tran, T. Perkins, Q. T. ten Bosch   +7 more
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Clinical manifestations of Rift Valley fever in humans: Systematic review and meta-analysis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
Background Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an emerging, neglected, mosquito-borne viral zoonosis associated with significant morbidity, mortality and expanding geographical scope. The clinical signs and symptoms in humans are non-specific and case definitions
Zacchaeus Anywaine, S. Lule, C. Hansen, G. Warimwe, A. Elliott   +4 more
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Genetic diversity of collaborative cross mice enables identification of novel rift valley fever virus encephalitis model

PLoS Pathogens, 2022
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an arboviral disease of humans and livestock responsible for severe economic and human health impacts. In humans, RVF spans a variety of clinical manifestations, ranging from an acute flu-like illness to severe forms of disease,
H. N. Cartwright, Dominique J. Barbeau, Joshua D. Doyle, E. Klein, M. Heise, M. Ferris, A. McElroy   +6 more
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Selected wetland soil properties correlate to Rift Valley fever livestock mortalities reported in 2009-10 in central South Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Outbreaks of Rift Valley fever have devastating impacts on ruminants, humans, as well as on regional and national economies. Although numerous studies on the impact and outbreak of Rift Valley fever exist, relatively little is known about the role of ...
Anna M Verster, Janice E Liang, Melinda K Rostal, Alan Kemp, Robert F Brand, Assaf Anyamba, Claudia Cordel, Robert Schall, Herman Zwiegers, Janusz T Paweska, William B Karesh, Cornie W van Huyssteen   +11 more
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Seroprevalence of alphavirus antibodies in a cross-sectional study in southwestern Tanzania suggests endemic circulation of chikungunya. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014
BACKGROUND: To date, Alphavirus infections and their most prominent member, chikungunya fever, a viral disease which first became apparent in Tanzania in 1953, have been very little investigated in regions without epidemic occurrence.
Nina Weller, Petra Clowes, Gerhard Dobler, Elmar Saathoff, Inge Kroidl, Nyanda Elias Ntinginya, Leonard Maboko, Thomas Löscher, Michael Hoelscher, Norbert Heinrich   +9 more
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The Emergence of Rift Valley Fever in Gedaref State Urges the Need for a Cross-Border One Health Strategy and Enforcement of the International Health Regulations

Pathogens, 2021
This study investigated the causative agent of a haemorrhagic fever epidemic in Gedaref state, south-east Sudan. Six cases of febrile illness with haemorrhagic manifestations presented at outpatient health-clinics.
Ayman Ahmed, Iman Mahmoud, Mawahib Eldigail, Rehab M Elhassan, S. Weaver   +4 more
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Insights into the Pathogenesis of Viral Haemorrhagic Fever Based on Virus Tropism and Tissue Lesions of Natural Rift Valley Fever

Viruses, 2021
Rift Valley fever phlebovirus (RVFV) infects humans and a wide range of ungulates and historically has caused devastating epidemics in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Lieza Odendaal, A. Davis, E. Venter
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Association of Rift Valley fever virus infection with miscarriage in Sudanese women: a cross-sectional study

The Lancet Global Health, 2016
Background: Rift Valley fever virus is an emerging mosquito-borne virus that causes infections in animals and human beings in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Maria Baudin, MSc, Ammar M Jumaa, MD, Huda J E Jomma, MSc, Mubarak S Karsany, PhD, Göran Bucht, PhD, Jonas Näslund, PhD, Prof. Clas Ahlm, PhD, Prof. Magnus Evander, PhD, Nahla Mohamed, PhD   +8 more
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The ring finger protein 213 gene (Rnf213) contributes to Rift Valley fever resistance in mice

Mammalian Genome, 2021
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an emerging viral zoonosis that primarily affects ruminants and humans. We have previously shown that wild-derived MBT/Pas mice are highly susceptible to RVF virus and that part of this phenotype is controlled by a locus ...
D. Houzelstein, D. Simon-Chazottes, L. Batista, S. Tokuda, Francina Langa Vives, M. Flamand, X. Montagutelli, J. Panthier   +7 more
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Serological evidence of single and mixed infections of Rift Valley fever virus, Brucella spp. and Coxiella burnetii in dromedary camels in Kenya

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
Camels are increasingly becoming the livestock of choice for pastoralists reeling from effects of climate change in semi-arid and arid parts of Kenya. As the population of camels rises, better understanding of their role in the epidemiology of zoonotic ...
M. Muturi, J. Akoko, Daniel Nthiwa, B. Chege, R. Nyamota, M. Mutiiria, Josphat Maina, S. Thumbi, Mutono Nyamai, Samuel Kahariri, R. Sitawa, Joshua Kimutai, W. Kuria, A. Mwatondo, B. Bett   +14 more
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