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      The prevalence of arboviral, rickettsial, and Hantaan-like viral antibody among schoolchildren in the Nile river delta of Egypt.

      Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
      Adolescent, Antibodies, Bacterial, analysis, Antibodies, Viral, Arbovirus Infections, epidemiology, Arboviruses, immunology, Child, Egypt, Female, Hantavirus, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Humans, Male, Rickettsia, Rickettsia Infections

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          A serosurvey was conducted during October and November 1989 to estimate the prevalence of selected arboviral, rickettsial, and Hantaan viral antibody among a sample of schoolchildren from 4 villages in the Bilbeis area of the Nile river delta, Egypt. Blood specimens were obtained from subjects aged 8 to 14 years. Enzyme immunoassay testing of the sera indicated that the prevalence of antibody was 9% (21/223) for Sicilian sandfly fever, 4% (8/223) for Rift Valley fever, 3% (15/437) for West Nile virus and 9% (28/315) for Hantaan (HTN) virus. Antibody was demonstrated among 22% (93/418) of the same study subjects against Coxiella burnetti, 53% (199/373) against Rickettsia typhi, and 37% (137/371) against R. conorii.

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