Gür Sibel, Kale Mehmet, Erol Nural, Yapici Orhan, Mamak Nuri, Yavru Sibel
Department of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, AfyonKocatepe University, 03200, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey.
Department of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mehmet AkifErsoy University, 15030, Burdur, Turkey.
Trop Anim Health Prod. 2017 Oct;49(7):1531-1535. doi: 10.1007/s11250-017-1359-8. Epub 2017 Aug 31.
Rift valley fever (RVF), a vector-borne zoonotic disease, is caused by a phlebovirus (family Bunyaviridae). The virus was initially characterized approximately 80 years ago in Kenya and disseminated to many countries in the continental Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. The infection has not been reported in Turkey. In this study, blood serum samples collected from camel (Camelus dromedairus), goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa subgutturosa), and buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis linneaus) from 2000 to 2006 were investigated for RVF using C-ELISA. Camel samples (n = 72) were obtained from private small enterprises in Aydın province in theAegean region. Gazella samples (82) were taken from the biggest captive gazelle herd in Şanlıurfa province in the southeast Anatolia. Buffalo samples were collected mostly from small private family type farms in Afyon (168), Amasya (80), Samsun (69), Ankara (35), Sivas (21), Tokat (19), Konya (10), and Elazığ (8) provinces in the central, north, west, and east Anatolia. All of the gazella samples were negative; whereas, one of the 71 camel samples (1.3%) was positive for RVF-specific antibodies. Buffalos from Sivas, Tokat, Konya, and Elazığ provinces were negative. However, 35 of the 410 samples (8.5%) from rural areas in the following four provinces were positive: Amasya (12/80, 15%), Ankara (5/35, 14.2%), Samsun (8/69, 11.5%), and Afyon (10/168, 5.9%). To our knowledge, this is the first report of presence of RVF infection in Turkey.
裂谷热（RVF）是一种由白蛉病毒（布尼亚病毒科）引起的媒介传播人畜共患病。该病毒约80年前在肯尼亚首次被鉴定出来，并传播到非洲大陆的许多国家、沙特阿拉伯和也门。土耳其尚未报告有这种感染病例。在本研究中，使用C-ELISA对2000年至2006年从骆驼（单峰驼）、鹅喉羚（鹅喉羚指名亚种）和水牛（野水牛）采集的血清样本进行了裂谷热调查。骆驼样本（n = 72）取自爱琴海地区艾登省的私人小企业。鹅喉羚样本（82份）取自安纳托利亚东南部尚勒乌尔法省最大的圈养鹅喉羚群。水牛样本大多取自安纳托利亚中部、北部、西部和东部的阿菲永（168份）、阿玛西亚（80份）、萨姆松（69份）、安卡拉（35份）、锡瓦斯（21份）、托卡特（19份）、科尼亚（10份）和埃拉泽（8份）省的小型私人家庭农场。所有鹅喉羚样本均为阴性；而71份骆驼样本中有1份（1.3%）裂谷热特异性抗体呈阳性。来自锡瓦斯、托卡特、科尼亚和埃拉泽省的水牛样本为阴性。然而，来自以下四个省份农村地区的410份样本中有35份（8.5%）呈阳性：阿玛西亚（12/80，15%）、安卡拉（5/35，14.2%）、萨姆松（8/69，11.5%）和阿菲永（10/168，5.9%）。据我们所知，这是土耳其存在裂谷热感染的首次报告。
