ArticleBMC research notes2018
Bluetongue disease in small ruminants in south western Ethiopia: cross-sectional sero-epidemiological study.
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- Prioritizing smallholder animal health needs in East Africa, West Africa, and South Asia using three approaches: Literature review, expert workshops, and practitioner surveys.Preventive veterinary medicine · 2021Pooled it
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- Seroprevalence and regional risk assessment of bluetongue virus among livestock in Central Saudi Arabia.Veterinary world · 2025Article
- Seroprevalence and risk factors of bluetongue virus infection in sheep and goats in West Gondar zone, Northwest Ethiopia.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Identifications, spatial distribution, and seasonal occurrence of Culicoides in selected districts of Northwest Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Seroepidemiological Survey on Bluetongue Virus (BTV) among Cattle, Sheep, and Goats in Gadarif State, Eastern Sudan.International journal of microbiology · 2024Article
- Causes of abortion in Iranian sheep flocks and associated risk factors.Veterinary research communications · 2022Article
- Serological and molecular prevalence study of bluetongue virus in small domestic ruminants in Morocco.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Modeling the spatial distribution of Culicoides species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) as vectors of animal diseases in Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Prospective cohort study reveals unexpected aetiologies of livestock abortion in northern Tanzania.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Risk-based serological survey of bluetongue and the first evidence of bluetongue virus serotype 26 circulation in Tunisia.Veterinary medicine and science · 2022Article
- Seroprevalence of Bluetongue Virus Antibodies in Ovine in Maji District of West Omo Zone, Southwest Ethiopia.Veterinary medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Article
- Global emergence and evolutionary dynamics of bluetongue virus.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Serological Investigations of Bluetongue Virus (BTV) among Sheep and Goats in Kassala State, Eastern Sudan.Veterinary medicine international · 2020Article
- Bluetongue Virus Nonstructural Protein 3 Orchestrates Virus Maturation and Drives Non-Lytic Egress via Two Polybasic Motifs.Viruses · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe status of bluetongue disease, vectors for transmission of the disease and the serotypes involved are not clearly known in Ethiopia. This sero-epidemiological study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence and associated risk factors of bluetongue in small ruminants of South Western Ethiopia.
result422 serum samples were screened for the presence of bluetongue virus (BTV) specific antibodies using competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (c-ELISA) and 30.6% (129/422) (confidence interval CI 26.2-35%) of the sheep and goat serum samples were found positive. Multivariate analysis of several risk factors like age, sex, altitude, body condition and species of animals were studied and it was observed that species of animals, age and altitude had significant influence (P < 0.05) on seropositivity to BTV. Goats showed more seropositivity to bluetongue as compared to sheep [AOR = 2.4, 95% CI (1.5-3.9), P = 0.001], adult animals were more seropositive [AOR = 3.1, 95% CI (1.9-5.1), P = 0.001] than other age groups and animals at the lowland [AOR = 3.1, 95% CI (1.5-6.4), P = 0.002] showed more seropositivity to bluetongue than midland and high land. Sex and body condition of the animals had no statistically significant (P > 0.05) effect on seropositivity to bluetongue.
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