TY - JOUR AU - Mroz, Claudia AU - Gwida, Mayada AU - El-Ashker, Maged AU - El-Diasty, Mohamed AU - El-Beskawy, Mohamed AU - Ziegler, Ute AU - Eiden, Martin AU - Groschup, Martin H. PY - 2017 DA - 2017/04/05 TI - Seroprevalence of Rift Valley fever virus in livestock during inter-epidemic period in Egypt, 2014/15 JO - BMC Veterinary Research SP - 87 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) caused several outbreaks throughout the African continent and the Arabian Peninsula posing significant threat to human and animal health. In Egypt the first and most important Rift Valley fever epidemic occurred during 1977/78 with a multitude of infected humans and huge economic losses in livestock. After this major outbreak, RVF epidemics re-occurred in irregular intervals between 1993 and 2003. Seroprevalence of anti-RVFV antibodies in livestock during inter-epidemic periods can be used for supporting the evaluation of the present risk exposure for animal and public health. A serosurvey was conducted during 2014/2015 in non-vaccinated livestock including camels, sheep, goats and buffalos in different areas of the Nile River Delta as well as the furthermost southeast of Egypt to investigate the presence of anti-RVFV antibodies for further evaluating of the risk exposure for animal and human health. All animals integrated in this study were born after the last Egyptian RVF epidemic in 2003 and sampled buffalos and small ruminants were not imported from other endemic countries. SN - 1746-6148 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-017-0993-8 DO - 10.1186/s12917-017-0993-8 ID - Mroz2017 ER -