Publications by authors named "Hussein Aly Hussein Ahmed"
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- Rift Valley fever (RVF) disease appears to have an interepidemic reservoir, with bats and rodents being potential carriers of the RVF virus (RVFV).
- A study conducted from 2019 to 2021 tested 200 bats from two species across six Egyptian governorates for the presence of phleboviruses using real-time RT-PCR.
- Results showed RVFV genome evidence only in insectivorous bats, indicating a genetic similarity to strains that affected livestock and humans during past outbreaks in Egypt, suggesting these bats may play a role in the virus's ecology.
Bats are considered ideal reservoirs for zoonotic viruses with emerging capabilities over the past two decades and spotted evidence points out that they may play a role as a reservoir host for SARS-CoV-2. To investigate the possible role of bats as part of SARS-CoV-2 anthropozoonotic spill-over infections in Egypt, a total of 800 samples obtained from 200 Egyptian fruit bats () were tested for SARS-CoV-2 using quantitative RT-PCR assay (RT-qPCR). RT-qPCR analysis of RNA extracted from bat tissues showed no positive results for SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid.
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