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High Seroprevalence of Rift Valley Fever and Evidence for Endemic Circulation in Mbeya Region, Tanzania, in a Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]

, 2012
Background: The Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is an arthropod-borne phlebovirus. RVFV mostly causes outbreaks among domestic ruminants with a major economic impact. Human infections are associated with these events, with a fatality rate of 0.5-2%. Since
Harun Machibya (175603), Ntinginya Elias, Elmar Saathoff, Petra Clowes, Leonard Maboko, Leonard Maboko (175605), Dobler, Gerhard, Nina Weller (175596), Clowes, Petra, Hoelscher, Michael, Elmar Saathoff (4991), Norbert Heinrich (175590), Weller, Nina, Michael Hoelscher, Gerhard Dobler, Gerhard Dobler (175607), Norbert Heinrich, Heinrich Norbert, Hoelscher Michael, Michael Hoelscher (151418), Dobler Gerhard, Petra Clowes (175598), Thomas Löscher, Harun Machibya, Kroidl, Inge, Machibya Harun, Loescher, Thomas, Saathoff, Elmar, Machibya, Harun, Inge Kroidl, Weller Nina, Kroidl Inge, Elias Ntinginya (175601), Nina Weller, Thomas Löscher (139093), Heinrich, Norbert, Maboko Leonard, Löscher Thomas, Saathoff Elmar, Inge Kroidl (151415), Maboko, Leonard, Elias Ntinginya, Ntinginya, Elias, Clowes Petra   +43 more
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Crescendo Transient Ischemic Attacks Due to Basilar Coccidioidal Meningitis With Coccidioma

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2018
Coccidioidal meningitis typically presents with symptoms that may include headache, altered mental status including personality changes, fever, nausea, vomiting, gait abnormalities, and focal neurological deficits.
Carlos D’Assumpcao MD, Arash Heidari MD, Katayoun Sabetian MD, Royce H. Johnson MD   +3 more
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Climate teleconnections and recent patterns of human and animal disease outbreaks. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012
Recent clusters of outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases (Rift Valley fever and chikungunya) in Africa and parts of the Indian Ocean islands illustrate how interannual climate variability influences the changing risk patterns of disease outbreaks ...
Assaf Anyamba, Kenneth J Linthicum, Jennifer L Small, Kathrine M Collins, Compton J Tucker, Edwin W Pak, Seth C Britch, James Ronald Eastman, Jorge E Pinzon, Kevin L Russell   +9 more
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Rift Valley Fever Outbreak during COVID-19 Surge, Uganda, 2021

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
Rift Valley fever, endemic or emerging throughout most of Africa, causes considerable risk to human and animal health. We report 7 confirmed Rift Valley fever cases, 1 fatal, in Kiruhura District, Uganda, during 2021.
Caitlin M. Cossaboom, Luke Nyakarahuka, Sophia Mulei, Jackson Kyondo, Alex Tumusiime, Jimmy Baluku, Gloria Grace Akurut, Dianah Namanya, Kilama Kamugisha, Hildah Tendo Nansikombi, Alex Nyabakira, Semei Mutesasira, Shannon Whitmer, Carson Telford, Julius Lutwama, Stephen Balinandi, Joel Montgomery, John D. Klena, Trevor Shoemaker   +18 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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Efficacy of a lyophilized combined Rift Valley Fever and Pest des Petits Ruminants vaccine [PDF]

Kafrelsheikh Veterinary Medical Journal
Background: Rift Valley Fever (RVF) and Pest des Petits Ruminants (PPR) are two viral diseases that pose a significant threat to sheep populations, leading to substantial financial losses.
Noha Ezz El-Deen, Mohamed Youssef, Dalia Abd El Moaty, Taradi Abd El-Fattah, Marwa Yehia   +4 more
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Volatile Metabolites in Lavage Fluid Are Correlated with Cytokine Production in a Valley Fever Murine Model

Journal of Fungi, 2023
Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii are soil-dwelling fungi of arid regions in North and South America that are responsible for Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis). Forty percent of patients with Valley fever exhibit symptoms ranging from mild,
Emily A. Higgins Keppler, Marley C. Caballero Van Dyke, Heather L. Mead, Douglas F. Lake, D. Mitchell Magee, Bridget M. Barker, Heather D. Bean   +6 more
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Rift Valley Fever in Chad

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004
To evaluate the importance of human exposure to Rift Valley fever virus in Chad, investigations were carried out to determine specific antibody prevalence in domestic ruminants during the 2002 rainy season. Results highlighted recent, substantial, active transmission of this virus.
David Ringot, Jean-Paul Durand, Hughes Tolou, Jean-Paul Boutin, Bernard Davoust   +4 more
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Spatial and Temporal Pattern of Rift Valley Fever Outbreaks in Tanzania; 1930 to 2007

, 2014
Rift Valley fever (RVF)-like disease was first reported in Tanzania more than eight decades ago and the last large outbreak of the disease occurred in 2006–07. This study investigates the spatial and temporal pattern of RVF outbreaks in Tanzania over the
Mboera Leonard E. G., Dautu George, Kivaria, F., Pfeiffer Dirk U., Esron D Karimuribo, UN, Food & Agr Org, Karimuribo, E.D., Sindato, Calvin, Pfeiffer, D U, Mboera, Leonard E. G., Leonard E G Mboera, Sokoine University, Tanzania, Nat Health Lab Service, South Africa, Dautu, G., Pfeiffer, Dirk U., Dirk U Pfeiffer, George Dautu, Karimuribo Esron D., Janusz T Paweska, Bett, Bernard K., Paweska, J.T., Bernard, B, Kivaria Fredrick, Kivaria, Fredrick, Paweska, Janusz T., Kivaria, F, Fredrick Kivaria, Karimuribo, E D, Witwatersrand, South Africa, Zambia, Nat Instit For Medical Research, Bernard Bett, Mboera, L E G, Sindato, C., Dautu, G, Sindato, C, Paweska, J T, Bett Bernard, Sindato Calvin, Bernard, Bett, Calvin Sindato, Mboera, L.E.G., ILRI, Karimuribo, Esron D., Paweska Janusz T., Dautu, George   +45 more
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Bunyaviral diseases of animals (excluding Rift Valley fever and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever): Chapter 3.10.1 [PDF]

, 2023
The order Bunyavirales has hundreds of members distributed over 12 families with a large number of genera. Most viruses of the different families are transmitted to vertebrates by arthropods (arboviruses).
Baron, Michael, Wernike, Kerstin, Lubisi, Baratang Alison, Beer, Martin   +3 more
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