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Virus Name: Nairobi sheep disease

Abbreviation: NSDV

Status
Arbovirus

Select Agent
No

SALS Level

SALS Basis

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Antigenic Group
Nairobi Sheep Disease

Section VII - Natural Host Range (Additional text can be added below table)

Vertebrate (species and organ) and arthropod	No. isolations/No. tested	No. with antibody/No. tested Test used	Country and region


^* Limited antibody surveys show an extension southward from the below-named belt, on the west into Bechuanaland and the Kalahari Desert on the east down the Mocambique Coastal plain into northern Zululand (South Africa). Elsewhere in southern Africa there is no evidence of its existence.
^** Throughout a belt extending from Nairobi, Kenya in the east to Kisenyi in the Congo in the west, and covering the area approximately 50 miles south and 75 miles north of the Equator.

Man	1	60/321 NT	Entebbe, Uganda ^*
Man	1
Sheep		Numerous	Kenya; Uganda ^*
Sheep	Numerous		Kenya; Uganda; Congo ^**
Goat	Numerous
Goat		Numerous	Kenya; Uganda ^*
Rhipicephalus appendiculatus	Numerous
Culicoides terorensis	1		Kenya (14)

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