Rift Valley
Sero prevalence and spatial distribution of Rift Valley fever infection among agro pastoral and pastoral communities during Interepidemic period in the Serengeti ecosystem, northern Tanzania
... The study was done in the Serengeti ecosystem, where several outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever have been reported previously [6, 7]. Thus the findings cannot be extrapo- lated to the entire country and may ...
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Contribution of exclosure for environmental conservation and community livelihoods in the central rift valley area of Ethiopia
... Exclosure is an important source for environmental conservation, source of income generation and improvement of local livelihoods in the developing countries of the world. Exclosure can offer a viable alternative for ...
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Genetic Reassortment of Rift Valley Fever Virus in Nature
... Rift Valley fever is a serious emerging arthropod-borne viral anthropozoonosis caused by a phlebovirus (Rift Valley fever virus [RVFV], family Bunyaviridae), which was reported pri- marily to ...
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Simultaneous Detection of Rift Valley Fever, Bluetongue, Rinderpest, and Peste des Petits Ruminants Viruses by a Single Tube Multiplex Reverse Transcriptase PCR Assay Using a Dual Priming Oligonucleotide System
... The aim of this study was to develop a highly sensitive and specific one-step multiplex reverse trans- criptase PCR assay for the simultaneous and differential detection of Rift Valley Fever virus (RVFV), ...
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Hydrography and flow in the rift valley of the Mid Atlantic Ridge
... conclusion, however.) This appears to be the first study where an attempt has been made to infer the fate of the rift-valley water (and the associated hydrothermal tracers) beyond segment boundaries. ...
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Rift Valley fever: current challenges and future prospects
... Abstract: Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic, mosquito-borne viral disease that affects human health and causes significant losses in the livestock ...
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Larval species diversity, seasonal occurrence and larval habitat preference of mosquitoes transmitting Rift Valley fever and malaria in Baringo County, Kenya
... include Rift Valley fever (RVF) and malaria. Rift Valley fever is a zoonotic disease trans- mitted by a Phlebovirus of the family Bunyaviradae ...the Rift Valley ...
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EFFECT OF ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON LIQUIDITY OF PUBLIC TECHNICAL TRAINING INSTITUTIONS IN RIFT VALLEY REGION, KENYA
... The study sought to evaluate the effect of Accounts Receivable Management (APM) practices on liquidity of Public Technical Training Institutions (PTTI) in Rift Valley Regio[r] ...
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Evaluation of Fluorescence Microsphere Immunoassay for Detection of Antibodies to Rift Valley Fever Virus Nucleocapsid Protein and Glycoproteins
... ABSTRACT Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne, zoonotic virus that in- fects ruminants, including cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and ...
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Creation of Rift Valley Fever Viruses with Four-Segmented Genomes Reveals Flexibility in Bunyavirus Genome Packaging
... A n important member of the Bunyaviridae family, belonging to the Phlebovirus genus and causing devastating disease in ru- minants and occasionally humans, is the Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV). RVFV is ...
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Rift Valley Fever: Recent Insights into Pathogenesis and Prevention
... DNA vaccines. DNA vaccines also hold promise as a pro- phylactic strategy against Rift Valley fever outbreaks. There are several advantages to genetic vaccines, such as (i) the ability to mass produce them ...
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Development of a Novel Nonhuman Primate Model for Rift Valley Fever
... Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus (RVFV) can cause severe human disease characterized by either acute-onset hepatitis, delayed-onset encephalitis, retinitis and blindness, or a hemorrhagic ...
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Rift Valley Fever Outbreaks in Mauritania and Related Environmental Conditions
... Rift valley fever (RVF) is a viral zoonosis that affects domestic animals and humans by causing an acute fever. This disease is caused by the RVF virus that belongs to the genus Phlebovirus in the family ...
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Pathological studies on postvaccinal reactions of Rift Valley fever in goats
... with Rift Valley Fever virus naturally, showed scattered grayish-white foci of 1–2 mm in diame- ter and hemorrhages of varying sizes were seen through- ...
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Modeling Rift Valley Fever with Treatment and Trapping Control Strategies
... stable and the disease will spread. The mathematical model is analyzed analytically and numeri- cally to obtain insight of the impact of intervention in reducing the burden of rift valley fever dis- ease’s ...
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Plant resting site preferences and parity rates among the vectors of Rift Valley Fever in northeastern Kenya
... This study determined the parity rates an indirect measure of survival and plant resting preference of vectors of Rift Valley fever RVF in northeastern Kenya.. Methods: Resting mosquitoe[r] ...
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Characterization of Rift Valley Fever Virus Transcriptional Terminations
... Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) (genus Phlebovirus, family Bunyaviridae) has a tripartite negative-strand genome and causes a mosquito-borne disease among humans and livestock in sub-Saharan African and ...
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Observations on rift valley fever virus and vaccines in Egypt
... The description of the live attenuated RVF vaccine (smithburn strain) which produced by the Egyptian VSVRI stated the following; a- Live attenuated freeze dried tissue culture Rift Valley Fever virus ...
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Rift Valley Fever: A Review
... 2007 211 deaths In Sudan. & a total of 264 cases including 109 deaths of Rift Valley fever in Tanzania. Total of 114 cases including 51 deaths of Rift Valley Fever were reported in ...
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Three novel bacteriophages isolated from the East African Rift Valley soda lakes
... Three novel bacteriophages isolated from the East African Rift Valley soda lakes RESEARCH Open Access Three novel bacteriophages isolated from the East African Rift Valley soda lakes Leonardo Joaquim[.] ...
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