PMID- 35215069
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220301
IS  - 2076-0817 (Print)
IS  - 2076-0817 (Electronic)
IS  - 2076-0817 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 2
DP  - 2022 Jan 21
TI  - Detection of Rift Valley Fever Virus in Aedes (Aedimorphus) durbanensis, South 
      Africa.
LID - 10.3390/pathogens11020125 [doi]
LID - 125
AB  - Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a mosquito-borne, zoonotic phlebovirus-causing 
      disease in domestic ruminants and humans in Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and 
      some Indian Ocean islands. Outbreaks, characterized by abortion storms and a high 
      morbidity rate in newborn animals, occur after heavy and prolonged rainfalls 
      favouring the breeding of mosquitoes. However, the identity of the important 
      mosquito vectors of RVFV is poorly known in most areas. Mosquitoes collected in 
      the Ndumo area of tropical north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa, were 
      tested for RVFV nucleic acid using RT-PCR. The virus was detected in a single 
      pool of unfed Aedes (Aedimorphus) durbanensis, indicating that this seasonally 
      abundant mosquito species could serve as a vector in this area of endemic RVFV 
      circulation. Phylogenetic analysis indicated the identified virus is closely 
      related to two isolates from the earliest outbreaks, which occurred in central 
      South Africa more than 60 years ago, indicating long-term endemicity in the 
      region. Further research is required to understand the eco-epidemiology of RVFV 
      and the vectors responsible for its circulation in the eastern tropical coastal 
      region of southern Africa.
FAU - van den Bergh, Carien
AU  - van den Bergh C
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3797-598X
AD  - Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, 
      University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa.
FAU - Thompson, Peter N
AU  - Thompson PN
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2268-9748
AD  - Department of Production Animal Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Science, 
      University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa.
FAU - Swanepoel, Robert
AU  - Swanepoel R
AD  - Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, 
      University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa.
FAU - Almeida, Antonio P G
AU  - Almeida APG
AD  - Unidade de Parasitologia Medica, Global Health and Tropical Medicine, 
      Universidade Nova Lisboa, 1365-008 Lisboa, Portugal.
FAU - Paweska, Janusz T
AU  - Paweska JT
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8776-7519
AD  - Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for 
      Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, 
      Johannesburg 2192, South Africa.
AD  - Department of Medical Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of 
      Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa.
AD  - School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 
      Johannesburg 2000, South Africa.
FAU - Jansen van Vuren, Petrus
AU  - Jansen van Vuren P
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2862-7983
AD  - Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for 
      Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, 
      Johannesburg 2192, South Africa.
AD  - Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, CSIRO-Health and Biosecurity, 
      Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia.
FAU - Wilson, William C
AU  - Wilson WC
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7877-9224
AD  - National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, Agricultural Research Service, United 
      States Department of Agriculture, Manhattan, KS 66502, USA.
FAU - Kemp, Alan
AU  - Kemp A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2051-467X
AD  - Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for 
      Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Sandringham, 
      Johannesburg 2192, South Africa.
FAU - Venter, Estelle H
AU  - Venter EH
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7351-0827
AD  - Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, 
      University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa.
AD  - College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, 
      Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia.
LA  - eng
GR  - 5NU2GGH001874-02-00/CC/CDC HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220121
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Pathogens
JT  - Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101596317
PMC - PMC8879006
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Aedes (Aedimorphus) durbanensis
OT  - Rift Valley fever virus
OT  - mosquito vector
OT  - transmission
COIS- No conflict of interest declared.
EDAT- 2022/02/27 06:00
MHDA- 2022/02/27 06:01
PMCR- 2022/01/21
CRDT- 2022/02/26 01:04
PHST- 2021/11/25 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/01/10 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/01/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/02/26 01:04 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/02/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/02/27 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/01/21 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - pathogens11020125 [pii]
AID - pathogens-11-00125 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/pathogens11020125 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Pathogens. 2022 Jan 21;11(2):125. doi: 10.3390/pathogens11020125.