| [evaluation of indicators of health in the area of trarza during the epidemic of rift valley fever in 1987]. | randomized epidemiological studies conducted inside the rift valley fever epidemic area permitted an estimate of the different epidemiological rates. for the town of rosso, the total number of infected persons was estimated at 9,320, the total number of symptomatic diseases at 1,013 and the number of deaths at 47. the minimal number of deaths for the area which had access to the hospital was 232. the immunity rate in the town was 34.89% after the epidemic. the elisa test was used to test human a ... | 1990 | 2085908 |
| analytical study of a rift valley fever epidemic. | three epidemiological investigations were carried out during and after the 1987 rift valley fever (rvf) epidemic in south mauritania: a case control study, a cross-sectional study in the town of rosso and a cross-sectional study of villages and encampments around rosso. the case control study showed an association between epizootic and epidemic outbreaks. the study in rosso town showed housing and district effects. also, a medical survey of hospital staff showed the absence of interhuman contami ... | 1989 | 2787923 |
| rift valley fever among domestic animals in the recent west african outbreak. | severe haemorrhagic disease among the human population of the senegal river basin brought the rift valley fever virus (rvfv) outbreak of 1987 to the attention of science. as in previous rvfv outbreaks, local herdsmen reported a high incidence of abortion and disease in their livestock. serum samples were obtained from domestic animal populations from areas near rosso, the best studied focus of human infection, as well as other areas distant from known human disease. among animals from the area o ... | 1989 | 2711047 |
| [biological parameters of patients infected by the rift valley fever virus in rosso (mauritania)]. | | 1992 | 1480580 |