Peste des petits ruminants has been widely present in southern India since, if not before, the late 1980s
Because previous authorities had suggested that small ruminants were playing a part in the dissemination of rinderpest, and a rinderpest-eradication campaign was about to begin, it was necessary to make precise virus identifications from a number of small-ruminant "rinderpest" outbreaks. When this was done using a database created from passive disease reports, we found that epidemics-reportedly due to rinderpest-were in fact due to peste des petits ruminants (PPRs). Although such cases had been common in India for a number of years, earlier clinical and laboratory reports no longer should be regarded as definitive. PPR outbreaks have been frequent in recent years. Further, we suggest that PPR is not a recent invader of India. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | article biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | L73 - Maladies des animaux, peste des petits ruminants, épidémiologie, microbiologie, ruminant, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_16789, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2615, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4800, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6695, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3825, |
| Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/535436/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/535436/1/document_535436.pdf |
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