External quality assessment of Rift Valley fever diagnosis in 17 veterinary laboratories of the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions.

Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an arboviral zoonosis that primarily affects ruminants but can also cause illness in humans. The increasing impact of RVF in Africa and Middle East and the risk of expansion to other areas such as Europe, where competent mosquitos are already established, require the imple...

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Main Authors: Elisa Pérez-Ramírez, Cristina Cano-Gómez, Francisco Llorente, Bojan Adzic, Maisa Al Ameer, Igor Djadjovski, Jeanne El Hage, Fatiha El Mellouli, Teufik Goletic, Hermine Hovsepyan, Ilke Karayel-Hacioglu, Jelena Maksimovic Zoric, Selma Mejri, Hassiba Sadaoui, Sayed Hassan Salem, Kurtesh Sherifi, Natela Toklikishvili, Ani Vodica, Federica Monaco, Alejandro Brun, Miguel Ángel Jiménez-Clavero, Jovita Fernández-Pinero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239478