Journal article : Review
Rift Valley fever: biology and epidemiology
- Abstract:
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Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne viral zoonosis that was first discovered in Kenya in 1930 and is now endemic throughout multiple African countries and the Arabian Peninsula. RVF virus primarily infects domestic livestock (sheep, goats, cattle) causing high rates of neonatal mortality and abortion, with human infection resulting in a wide variety of clinical outcomes, ranging from self-limiting febrile illness to life-threatening haemorrhagic diatheses, and miscarriage in pregnant ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Medical Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Microbiology Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of General Virology Journal website
- Volume:
- 100
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- 1187-1199
- Publication date:
- 2019-08-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-06-16
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1465-2099
- ISSN:
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0022-1317
- Pmid:
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31310198
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subtype:
- Review
- Pubs id:
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1035779
- Local pid:
- pubs:1035779
- Deposit date:
- 2021-07-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Wright et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 The Authors
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