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Nairobi sheep disease

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Nairobi sheep disease [nī‚rō·bē ′shēp di‚zēz]
(veterinary medicine)
A tick-borne viral disease of sheep and goats that is caused by a ribonucleic acid-containing virus of the genusNairovirus, characterized by hemorrhagic gastroenteritis and high mortality.


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Nairobi sheep disease virus (NSDV), also in the genus Nairovirus, causes fever, hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, and abortion in sheep and goats in East Africa (14).
Tickborne arbovirus surveillance in market livestock, Nairobi, Kenya by Miller, Barry / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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