Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2020)

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

  • Daniel Oluwayelu,
  • Babak Afrough,
  • Adebowale Adebiyi,
  • Anitha Varghese,
  • Park Eun-Sil,
  • Shuetsu Fukushi,
  • Tomoki Yoshikawa,
  • Masayuki Saijo,
  • Eric Neumann,
  • Shigeru Morikawa,
  • Roger Hewson,
  • Oyewale Tomori

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2604.190354
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 4
pp. 744 – 747

Abstract

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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.

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