An investigation into an outbreak of Rift Valley fever on a cattle farm in Bela-Bela, South Africa, in 2008

Journal of the South African Veterinary Association

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mapaco, Lourenço P ^a,b   Coetzer, Jacobus A W ^a   Paweska, Janusz T ^c   Venter, Estelle H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Directorate of Animal Science   (Mozambique)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREEDING; CATTLE DISEASE; CATTLE FARMING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; SHEEP; SOUTH AFRICA; VIREMIA; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; WIND; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BOVINAE; CATTLE DISEASES; SHEEP DISEASES; VETERINARY; ANIMAL DISEASE; CATTLE; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84892159121     PISSN: 10199128     EISSN: 22249435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/jsava.v83i1.132     Document Type: Article

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