Antibodies against Rift Valley Fever Virus in Cattle, Mozambique
Emerg. infect. dis. (Online); 19 (), 2013
Publication year: 2013
During the past 2 decades, several countries in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, to which
Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is endemic, have reported outbreaks of Rift Valley fever in humans and livestock. The first evidence of RVFV in Mozambique was documented as early as the 1960s (1). Endemicity was subsequently confirmed in the 1980s by a prevalence study that identified virusspecific antibodies in 2% of pregnant women (2) and in the 1990s by serosurveillance in Zambezia Province, which showed that cattle had been infected with RVFV.
Mozambique, d0009060, d0122960, Cattle Diseases/epidemiology, Cattle Diseases/immunology, Cattle Diseases/virology, Epidemiological Monitoring/veterinary, Rift Valley Fever/diagnosis, Rift Valley Fever/immunology, Rift Valley Fever/epidemiology, Rift Valley fever virus/immunology, Seroepidemiologic Studies