Volume 17, Number 12—December 2011
Dispatch
Animal Diseases Caused by Orbiviruses, Algeria
Hafsa Madani, Jordi Casal, Anna Alba, Alberto Allepuz, Catherine Cêtre-Sossah, Leila Hafsi, Houria Kount-Chareb, Nadera Bouayed-Chaouach, Hassiba Saadaoui, and Sebastian Napp
Table
Seropositivity for BTV and EHDV in livestock in Algeria, 2008*
| Location† | No. positive/no. tested |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BTV, cattle | BTV, sheep | BTV, goats | BTV, camels | EHDV, cattle | |
| Adrar | 0/31 | 0/19 | 0/6 | 0/27 | 6/29 |
| Aïn Témouchent (1) | 13/54 | 1/16 | 1/11 | NT | 1/54 |
| Algiers (2) | 14/41 | 0/18 | NT | NT | 0/41 |
| Annaba (3) | 8/28 | 1/17 | NT | NT | 0/28 |
| Béjaïa (4) | 6/40 | 0/21 | NT | NT | 0/40 |
| Blida (5) | 13/44 | 4/25 | NT | NT | 1/44 |
| Boumerdès (6) | 12/37 | 3/15 | NT | NT | 1/37 |
| Chlef (7) | 12/22 | 0/21 | NT | NT | 1/22 |
| Djelfa | 5/49 | 2/13 | 0/5 | NT | 15/49 |
| El Tarf (8) | 54/54 | 9/17 | NT | NT | 3/54 |
| Ghardaia | 17/22 | 6/15 | 5/12 | 7/7 | 5/22 |
| Jijel (9) | 4/27 | 0/22 | NT | NT | 0/27 |
| Mostaganem (10) | 58/72 | NT | NT | NT | 11/72 |
| Naama (11) | 0/55 | 2/23 | 0/4 | 10/35 | 9/56 |
| Oran (12) | 9/53 | 7/18 | NT | NT | 11/53 |
| Skikda (14) | 3/13 | 3/11 | NT | NT | 1/13 |
| Souk Ahras (15) | 8/18 | 0/9 | NT | NT | 1/18 |
| Tebessa (16) | 2/26 | 6/17 | 4/11 | NT | 6/26 |
| Tindouf | 6/15 | 5/13 | 2/23 | ||
| Tipasa (16) | 0/48 | 0/20 | NT | NT | 0/48 |
| Tizi Ouzou (17) | 0/64 | 1/9 | NT | NT | 0/62 |
| Tlemcen (18) | 9/54 | 1/18 | 0/9 | NT | 3/54 |
| Total | 247/852 | 52/359 | 15/71 | 19/92 | 75/849 |
*BTV, bluetongue viruses; EHDV, epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus; NT, not tested.
†Values in parentheses indicate provinces (wilayas) shown in the Figure.
