Prevalence of Antibodies to Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ruminants, Nigeria, 2015

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 744 - 747
• Main Authors: Oluwayelu, Daniel, Afrough, Babak, Adebiyi, Adebowale, Varghese, Anitha, Eun-Sil, Park, Fukushi, Shuetsu, Yoshikawa, Tomoki, Saijo, Masayuki, Neumann, Eric, Morikawa, Shigeru, Hewson, Roger, Tomori, Oyewale
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.04.2020; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Animals; Antibodies; antibodies Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus; Antigens; Arthropods; Beef cattle; Cattle; Disease; Diseases; Dispatch; Epidemiology; Fever; Goats; Hemorrhagic fevers; Immunoglobulin G; Infection; Infections; Information management; Livestock; Meat industry; Medical research; Nature; Nigeria; prevalence; Prevalence of Antibodies to Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ruminants, Nigeria, 2015; Public health; R&D; Research & development; Resveratrol; ruminants; Sheep; Tick-borne diseases; Viral infections; Viremia; Viruses; Workers; Zoonoses; Congo (Kinshasa); United Kingdom; Nigeria; Ukraine; Taiwan; Iran; Niger; Sudan; CCHF; prevalence; viruses; CCHFV; ruminants; zoonoses; antibodies; Nigeria; Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever; Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2604.190354

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is a highly transmissible human pathogen. Infection is often misdiagnosed, in part because of poor availability of data in disease-endemic areas. We sampled 150 apparently healthy ruminants throughout Nigeria for virus seropositivity and detected virus-specific IgG in cattle (24%) and goats (2%), highlighting the need for further investigations.