Emergence of Wesselsbron virus among black rat and humans in Eastern Senegal in 2013.

ABSTRACT: Wesselsbron disease is a neglected mosquito transmitted Flavivirus infection that causes abortions and has teratogenic effects on sheep and cattle in Africa. Human can also be infected. The detection of human or animal cases is complicated by the non-specific symptoms close to Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in domestic livestock species or Dengue like syndrome in humans. Then, these detections are usually made during RVF investigations in sheep. These domestic animals should take a role in the life cycle of the virus but some evidences of Wesselsbron virus (WSLV) presence in wild animals suggest that the latter may be involved in the virus maintenance in nature. However, the reservoir status of wild vertebrate in general and rodents particularly for WSLV is only based on an isolatio

SUBMITTER: Diagne MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5454166 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature