West Nile Fever & Dengue Fever viruses in Suburban areas in Khartoum : Prevlance of WNV & DV in the capital city of Sudan, Risk factor association with WNV & DV infection

ISBN-13: 9783659524806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 76 str.

Khalid Abdalla Abdelhalim; Shamsoun Khamis

Opis

Dengue virus (DENV) and West Nile virus (WNV), close siblings of the Flaviviridae family, are the causative agents of Dengue hemorraghic shock and West Nile meningoencephalitis respectively. Vaccines against these two flaviviruses are currently unavailable. The Dengue fever & West Nile fever Viruses are very virulent. They cost a lot of people their lives. Suburban areas of Khartoum state are agricultural areas where there are canals, with pool water that represent a good places for mosquito breeding. Mosquitoes are vectors for transmission of many viral diseases such as Dengue and West Nile viruses. Despite all these facts, very limited studies were conducted to show the seroprevlance of these two viruses.

O autorze

He holds a B.Sc in Medical Laboratory Sciences, he obtained his master degree in 2014 in Microbiology from the National Ribat University, Sudan.He is interested in Viral diseases and their association with humans.Shamsoun Khamis Kafe, professor of Microbiology, dean faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences.