Rift Valley Fever Control
Methods for successful inactivation of Rift Valley fever virus in infected mosquitoes
... Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have classified RVFV as an overlap select agent (Federal Select Agents Program, ...
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Serological evidence of rift valley fever Phlebovirus and Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever orthonairovirus infections among pygmies in the east region of Cameroon
... A recent study provided molecular and serologic evi- dence of acute RVFV infections in livestock in Cameroon [4]. Thus it is likely that RVFV also currently affect human populations in Cameroon where testing facilities ...
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Rift Valley Fever Outbreaks in Mauritania and Related Environmental Conditions
... These density estimates do not include camels which were involved in RVF transmission in 2010 [14] and suspected to be involved in 2012 [16]. Mean rainfall over the area depicts a zonal pattern, with rainfall linearly ...
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Modelling the use of impulsive vaccination to control Rift Valley Fever virus transmission
... In this paper, we propose a vector-bone dynamical model to against the transmission of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) between ruminants and mosquitoes, where impulsive vaccination for susceptible ruminants ...
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Development of a Novel Nonhuman Primate Model for Rift Valley Fever
... Pathology findings. The primary gross pathology finding identified in marmosets that succumbed to infection by the i.v. or s.c. route of exposure was an enlarged (about 2 to 3 times the size of an uninfected ...
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Field captured Aedes vexans (Meigen, 1830) is a competent vector for Rift Valley fever phlebovirus in Europe
... The competence for the transmission of RVFV of a Euro- pean field-captured Ae. vexans population was assessed in two different years, 2016 and 2019. In 2016, at the Institut de Recerca i Tecnologies Agroalimentaries – ...
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Rapid Detection and Quantification of RNA of Ebola and Marburg Viruses, Lassa Virus, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Rift Valley Fever Virus, Dengue Virus, and Yellow Fever Virus by Real Time Reverse Transcription PCR
... PCR product corresponds to that of the positive control, the presence of the specific product needs to be verified by agarose gel analysis and sequencing. In this regard, it should be men- tioned that the assays ...
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Role of Culex and Anopheles mosquito species as potential vectors of rift valley fever virus in Sudan outbreak, 2007
... species). Alternatively, it might be because the mosquito captures were undertaken at the end of the rainy season, when most breeding sites had dried up and/or due to the intensive use of pesticides to control ...
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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 ...
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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 ...and control measures, including weak ...
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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 ...
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Modeling Rift Valley Fever with Treatment and Trapping Control Strategies
... public health implications, since they determine the severity and outcome of the epidemic (i.e. clearance or per- sistence of infection) and provide a framework for the design of control strategies. Analysis of ...
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Rift Valley Fever: A Review
... This is the most effective means to control RVF. Early warning of high-risk periods for the disease is possible and this information should drive strategic vaccination campaigns. The most effective vaccine is the ...
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Modelling hotspots of the two dominant Rift Valley fever vectors (Aedes vexans and Culex poicilipes) in Barkédji, Sénégal
... and control, spatio-temporal models for outbreaks prediction have been developed using climate time series data such as rainfall and sea surface temperature and the Normalized Difference of Vegetation Index (NDVI) ...
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Linalool oxide: generalist plant based lure for mosquito disease vectors
... burden. Rift Valley fever (RVF) and dengue represent two important mosquito-borne arboviral dis- eases, which continue to spread, evident from numerous disease outbreaks in various parts of the world ...
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Observations on rift valley fever virus and vaccines in Egypt
... According to the facts that most arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) are RNA viruses, which are maintained in nature by replication cycles that alternate between arthro- pod and vertebrate hosts [4]. RVFV ability to ...
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Evaluation of Fluorescence Microsphere Immunoassay for Detection of Antibodies to Rift Valley Fever Virus Nucleocapsid Protein and Glycoproteins
... well. Control sera, which included a strong positive, a medium positive, a low positive, and a negative serum sample, were added to each plate to serve as an internal quality ...positive control (S/P) ratio ...
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Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) and mosquito borne diseases in Mali, West Africa
... Aedes aegypti is the main vector of the yellow fever virus (YFV) and is the only domestic vector of this virus in West Africa [62]. In Mali, this species has been re- ported in towns, villages as well as in ...
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Investigation of Spatial Risk Factors for RVF Disease Occurrence Using Remote Sensing & GIS—A Case Study: Sinnar State, Sudan
... [8] Rift Valley Fever is usually found in tropical forest, Guinean and Sudanese zones but as well in semi-arid and arid zones that are associated with al- luvial riverine floodplains that provide a ...
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Concurrent malaria and arbovirus infections in Kedougou, southeastern Senegal
... grade fever (temperature ≥40 °C), while only ten and 34 % of patients, respectively, were diagnosed with a single arboviral or malaria infection with temperature ≥40 °C (Tables 1 and ...high-grade fever ...
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