Virus isolations and high population density implicate Culex antennatus (Becker) (Diptera: Culicidae) as a vector of Rift Valley Fever virus during an outbreak in the Nile Delta of Egypt

Acta Tropica

Volumn 119, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 119-124

  Hanafi, Hanafi A ^a   Fryauff, David J ^a   Saad, Magdi D ^a   Soliman, Atef K ^a   Mohareb, Emad W ^a   Medhat, Iman ^a   Zayed, Abdel Basset ^a   Szumlas, Daniel E ^a   Earhart, Kenneth C ^a  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Culex antennatus; Egypt; Outbreak; Rift Valley fever virus; RVFV; Vector

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

DISEASE SPREAD; IMMUNOASSAY; PATHOGEN; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRUS;

AEDES; AEDES DETRITUS; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES PHAROENSIS; ANOPHELES TENEBROSUS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; CULEX ANTENNATUS; CULEX PEREXIGUUS; CULEX PIPIENS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EGYPT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE MOSQUITO; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE GROWING VILLAGE; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; RURAL AREA; SAMPLING; SCREENING; SHEEP; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VIREMIA; VIRUS ISOLATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CATTLE; CULEX; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE VECTORS; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SHEEP;

EGYPT; KENYA; NILE DELTA; RIFT VALLEY;

ANTENNATUS; BOS; CULEX ANTENNATUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; OVIS ARIES; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 79960566375     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.04.018     Document Type: Article

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