title: Ecological distribution of Chikungunya haemagglutination inhibition antibodies in human and domestic animals in Nigeria.
abstract: A serological survey to detect presence of antibodies to Chikungunya virus in 477 human sera randomly sampled from four ecological zones of Nigeria was carried out employing a haemagglutination inhibition (HI) test. Similarly 220 animal sera collected mostly from the northern parts of Nigeria were screened for HI antibody to Chikungunya virus. Of the 477 human sera tested a total of 68 or 14.3% were found to possess Chikungunya HI antibodies made up of 10% in swampy forest, 20% in the rain forest, 14% in the derived savannah and 6.7% in the guinea savannah. Such sera positive for Chikungunya HI antibodies were further screened against other circulating alphaviruses of which 17 or 25% were positive to Igbo-Ora virus, 6 or 38.1% to Semliki forest virus and 36 or 52.6% were positive to Sindbis virus. Five or 2.3% of the 220 animal sera screened were found to possess Chikungunya HI antibodies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Adesina
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Odelola
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood*; D002162:Camelus; D002417:Cattle; D002646:Chikungunya virus; D002980:Climate; D004463:Ecology; D006041:Goats; D006385:Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests; D006801:Humans; D009549:Nigeria / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies; D012756:Sheep; D014036:Togaviridae Infections / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral