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Virology Journal, 2009 Background Affecting both livestock and humans, Rift Valley Fever is considered as one of the most important viral zoonoses in Africa. However, no licensed vaccines or effective treatments are yet available for human use.
Lundkvist Åke +5 more
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Structure of Rift Valley Fever Virus RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase
Journal of Virology, 2021 The zoonosis RVF virus (RVFV) is one of the most serious arbovirus threats to both human and animal health. RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) is a multifunctional enzyme catalyzing genome replication as well as viral transcription, so the RdRp is ...
Xue Wang +13 more
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Arbovirus Prevalence in Mosquitoes, Kenya
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 Few studies have investigated the many mosquito species that harbor arboviruses in Kenya. During the 2006–2007 Rift Valley fever outbreak in North Eastern Province, Kenya, exophilic mosquitoes were collected from homesteads within 2 affected areas ...
A. Desiree LaBeaud +7 more
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Factors Affecting on Production of Clostridium novyi type (B) Alpha Toxin
Journal of Applied Veterinary Sciences, 2022 Clostridium novyi type B is an anaerobic bacterium that causes black disease (infectious necrotic hepatitis). The alpha toxin is considered as a major virulence factor. The disease has been controlled using toxoid vaccines.
Marwa M. Ahmed +2 more
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MAVS mediates a protective immune response in the brain to Rift Valley fever virus
bioRxiv, 2021 Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a highly pathogenic mosquito-borne virus capable of causing hepatitis, encephalitis, blindness, hemorrhagic syndrome, and death in humans and livestock.
N. Hum +8 more
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Genome Analysis of Rift Valley Fever Virus, Mayotte
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2012 As further confirmation of a first human case of Rift Valley fever in 2007 in Comoros, we isolated Rift Valley fever virus in suspected human cases. These viruses are genetically closely linked to the 2006–2007 isolates from Kenya.
Catherine Cêtre-Sossah +7 more
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bioRxiv, 2020 Information on zoonotic diseases in humans and livestock are limited in pastoral/agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia. A multi-stage cross sectional cluster design study was implemented with the aim to establish the seroprevalence of zoonotic diseases ...
M. Ibrahim +5 more
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Reproducing the Rift Valley fever virus mosquito-lamb-mosquito transmission cycle
Scientific Reports, 2021 Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne bunyavirus that is pathogenic to ruminants and humans. The virus is endemic to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula where outbreaks are characterized by abortion storms and mortality of newborns ...
P. J. Wichgers Schreur +8 more
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Rift Valley fever and Brucella spp. in ruminants, Somalia
BMC Veterinary Research, 2021 Background Fourteen-years after the last Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus (RVFV) outbreak, Somalia still suffers from preventable transboundary diseases. The tradition of unheated milk consumption and handling of aborted materials poses a public health risk
A. A. Hassan-Kadle +6 more
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Rift Valley Fever: a Threat to Pregnant Women Hiding in Plain Sight?
Journal of Virology, 2021 The potential for emerging mosquito-borne viruses to cause fetal infection in pregnant women was overlooked until the Zika fever outbreak several years ago.
Cynthia M. McMillen, A. Hartman
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