bovine ephemeral fever in iran: diagnosis, isolation and molecular characterization

Bovine Ephemeral Fever in Iran: Diagnosis, Isolation and Molecular Characterization

BACKGROUND Bovine ephemeral fever (BEFV) is an arthropod-borne disease of cattle and water buffaloes. BEFV occurs seasonally in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions of Africa, Asia and Australia. It has been known for the past decades in Iran based on clinical signs but lack of an accurate diagnosis has made the real feature of disease obscured. This is the first scientific report on iso...

Isolation of Bovine Ephemeral Fever Virus in Iran

Studies on bovine ephemeral fever. I. Isolation and preliminary characterization of a virus from natural and experimentally produced cases of bovine ephemeral fever.

Ephemeral fever or thn:.e-day-stiffsickness of cattle has been known for nearly a century, and has been described in East Africa (Schweinfurth, 1867), Rhodesia (Bevan, 1907), South Africa (Theiler, 1908), Indonesia (Merkins, 1919 ; Burggraaf, 1932), India (Meadows, 1919), Japan (Futamara, 1922), Palestine (Rosen, 1931), and Australia (Mulhearn, 1937). During recent years world-wide surveys on t...

Epidemiology and control of bovine ephemeral fever

Bovine ephemeral fever (or 3-day sickness) is an acute febrile illness of cattle and water buffaloes. Caused by an arthropod-borne rhabdovirus, bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV), the disease occurs seasonally over a vast expanse of the globe encompassing much of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Although mortality rates are typically low, infection prevalence and morbidity rates du...

A preliminary report on the isolation of bovine malignant catarrhal fever virus in Iran

Epidemiological Investigation of Bovine Ephemeral Fever Outbreaks in Israel

Outbreaks of bovine ephemeral fever (BEF) occurred in Israel in 1990, 1999, and 2004. The main patterns of BEF spread were similar in the 1990 and in 1999 epidemics, and the BEF virus was probably carried in vectors transported by air streams across the Rift Valley and the Red Sea. In the 2004 outbreak, the primary focus of the disease was the southern Mediterranean coastal plain and the diseas...