A cross-sectional survey was carried out in ten states in Sudan to determine seroprevalence and to assess risk factors associated with Akabane virus (AKAV) infection in dairy herds. Serum samples were collected from a total of 361 dairy cattle and tested for antibodies against AKAV using ELISA. The prevalence rates of AKAV antibodies in cattle varied between 69.6% in Khartoum state and 3.3% in ...

Akabane and bovine ephemeral fever (BEF) viruses cause vector-borne diseases. In this study, inactivated Akabane virus (AKAV)+Bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV) vaccines with or without recombinant vibrio flagellin (revibFlaB) protein were expressed in a baculovirus expression system to measure their safety and immunogenicity. Blood was collected from mice, guinea pigs, sows, and cattle that h...

The biology, veterinary importance and control of certain Nematocera are described and discussed. Culicoides spp. (family Ceratopogonidae) transmit the arboviruses of bluetongue (BT), African horse sickness (AHS), bovine ephemeral fever (BEF) and Akabane. Some other arboviruses have been isolated from these species, while fowl pox has been transmitted experimentally by Culicoides. These insects...

Sera from 86 Turkish native camels seven provinces in Turkey were collected and tested for specific antibodies to Bluetongue virus (BTV), Akabane (AKAV) Schmallenberg (SBV) using ELISA. The BTV, AKAV SBV found 53.5%, 51.2% 15.1%, respectively. Furthermore, the seropositivity multiple infection was highest dual with BTV (25.6%), followed by triple (9.3%). These findings indicated that circulate ...

Akabane virus (AKAV) is an insect-borne belonging to the genus Orthobunyavirus of family Peribunyaviridae. It etiologic agent disease (AD), which emerged in Asia, Australia, and Middle East causing severe economic losses among domestic wild animals. AKAV has not received enough attention Egypt, its evidence Egyptian animals never been reported. Therefore, this study used ELISA assay investigate...