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.

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Main Authors:	Taylor, William P., Diallo, Adama, Gopalakrishna, S., Sreeramalu, P., Wilsmore, A.J., Nanda, Y.P., Libeau, Geneviève, Rajasekhar, M., Mukhopadhyay, A.K.
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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