peste des petits ruminants

Summary

Alias: pseudorinderpest
Summary: A highly fatal contagious disease of goats and sheep caused by PESTE-DES-PETITS-RUMINANTS VIRUS. The disease may be acute or subacute and is characterized by stomatitis, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, and pneumonia.

Webpages

  1. entrez gene statistics
    www.ncbi.nih.gov/projects/Gene/gentrez_stats.cgi?TAXORG=1115 ...
  2. prof. shaila m.s
    mcbl.iisc.ernet.in/Welcome%20to%20MCBL/Faculty/Shaila/Shaila ...
  3. prof. shaila m.s
    mcbl.iisc.ernet.in/Welcome to MCBL/Faculty/Shaila/Shaila.htm
  4. entrez gene statistics
    www.ncbi.nih.gov/projects/Gene/gentrez_stats.cgi?TAXORG=1122 ...
  5. cidrap >> rinderpest
    www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/biosecurity/ag-biosec/anim ...
  6. sequence analysis
    decabada.lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:670
  7. oie - world organisation for animal health
    www.oie.int/boutique/index.php?page=ficprod&id_produit=90&fi ...
  8. oie - world organisation for animal health
    www.oie.int/boutique/index.php?page=ficprod&id_produit=90&fi ...
  9. canadian food inspection agency - animal disease information
    www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/disemala/disemalae.shtml
  10. jenner
    www.jenner.ac.uk/invest_biog_t_barrett.html

Publications

  1. The detection of antibody against peste des petits ruminants virus in sheep, goats, cattle and buffaloes
    Haider Ali Khan
    Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Agriculture, Street No 2, Khalsa College, Faisalabad, Pakistan
    Trop Anim Health Prod 40:521-7
  2. Monoclonal antibody-based competitive ELISA for simultaneous detection of rinderpest virus and peste des petits ruminants virus antibodies
    Kang Seuk Choi
    National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, 480 Anyang 6 dong, Anyang, Kyonggi 430 824, South Korea
    Vet Microbiol 96:1-16
  3. Matrix protein and glycoproteins F and H of Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus function better as a homologous complex
    M Mahapatra
    Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK
    J Gen Virol 87:2021-9
  4. Prevalence, distribution, and host range of Peste des petits ruminants virus, Turkey
    Aykut Ozkul
    Ankara University, Turkey
    Emerg Infect Dis 8:708-12
  5. One-step multiplex RT-PCR assay for the detection of peste des petits ruminants virus in clinical samples
    V Balamurugan
    Division of Virology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar, Nainital District, Uttaranchal, India
    Vet Res Commun 30:655-66
  6. Post vaccination and colostral peste des petits ruminants antibody dynamics in research flocks of Kirdi goats and Foulbe sheep of north Cameroon
    D N Awa
    Institute of Agricultural Research for Development, P O Box 1073, Garoua, Cameroon
    Prev Vet Med 55:265-71
  7. Detection of antibodies against peste des petits ruminants virus in sera of cattle, camels, sheep and goats in Sudan
    M Haroun
    Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Nyala, Sudan
    Vet Res Commun 26:537-41
  8. Seroprevalence of, and risk factors for, peste des petits ruminants in sheep and goats in Northern Jordan
    Ahmad M Al Majali
    Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P O Box 3030, Irbid 22110, Jordan
    Prev Vet Med 85:1-8
  9. Detection of peste des petits ruminants virus antigen using immunofiltration and antigen-competition ELISA methods
    G Dhinakar raj
    Department of Animal Biotechnology, Madras Veterinary College, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, India
    Vet Microbiol 129:246-51
  10. Prevalence and distribution of peste des petits ruminants virus infection in small ruminants in India
    R P Singh
    Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly (UP)-243122, India
    Rev Sci Tech 23:807-19

Scientific Experts

  • A Diallo
  • Kang-Seuk Choi
  • O Kul
  • E Couacy-Hymann
  • Renata Servan de Almeida
  • H J Dechamma
  • S Parida
  • W P Taylor
  • Aykut Ozkul
  • E Tefiang
  • R Lancelot
  • E M E Abu Elzein
  • R P Singh
  • Ahmad M Al-Majali
  • P Saravanan
  • G Dhinakar raj
  • Dalan Bailey
  • E Couacy Hymann
  • G Libeau
  • V Balamurugan
  • S K Bandyopadhyay
  • D Muthuchelvan
  • S C Bodjo
  • O Kwiatek
  • E Albina
  • A Sen
  • B P Sreenivasa
  • Muhammad Abubakar
  • G Abraham
  • T Danho
  • T J Rasool
  • A Sanyal
  • Ana Carina Silva
  • Nussieba A Osman
  • Ahmad M Al Majali
  • Haider Ali Khan
  • M C O Ezeibe
  • A al-Naeem
  • Jingyue Bao
  • V Michaud
  • M Mahapatra
  • Madhusudan Hosamani
  • P Dhar
  • F Roger
  • V Gulyaz
  • Y Cam
  • C Grillet
  • C Minet
  • K K Rajak
  • M Diop
  • T Barrett
  • A Kamel Nahed
  • N Toplu
  • Samia A Ayad
  • G Berhe
  • D N Awa
  • Pronab Dhar
  • Thomas Barrett
  • M Haroun
  • Sareen E Galbraith
  • K Brindha
  • G Sinnathamby
  • Longciren Suo
  • J I Eze
  • Wenji Zhao
  • I C Eze
  • A S Ali
  • Chunju Liu
  • A A Ngene
  • Tom Barrett
  • J A C Ugonabo
  • Muhammad Siddique
  • Nadim M Amarin
  • M A Fadol
  • Haider A Khan
  • O N Okoroafor
  • E M E Abu-Elzein
  • D Gargani
  • Yutian Liu
  • Nazmi O Hussain
  • Jinming Li
  • M Lelenta
  • Muhammad Ashraf
  • Manuel J T Carrondo
  • Marcos F Q Sousa
  • Qurban Ali
  • Aggrey A Majok
  • Lin Li
  • Paula M Alves
  • Zhiliang Wang
  • M Y Koffi
  • M-F Le Potier
  • L Dixon
  • C Hurard
  • M Arias
  • P Gil
  • J Sarkar
  • B Sahay
  • L Romero
  • B Karimov
  • S Prome
  • E Carlsson
  • M F Le Potier
  • C Bodjo
  • Mahendra Pal Yadav
  • V Bhanuprakash
  • Santanu Kumar Bandyopadhyay
  • Bimalendu Mondal
  • Arnab Sen
  • M D Baron
  • Sanjay Kumar Singh
  • M P Yadav
  • Y Laekemariam
  • L Beyaz
  • A Atasever
  • D Hemadri
  • D Abayneh
  • A Gencay
  • M Hosamani
  • K M Awoke

Detail Information

Webpages20

  1. entrez gene statistics
    www.ncbi.nih.gov/projects/Gene/gentrez_stats.cgi?TAXORG=1115 ...
  2. prof. shaila m.s
    mcbl.iisc.ernet.in/Welcome%20to%20MCBL/Faculty/Shaila/Shaila ...
  3. prof. shaila m.s
    mcbl.iisc.ernet.in/Welcome to MCBL/Faculty/Shaila/Shaila.htm
  4. entrez gene statistics
    www.ncbi.nih.gov/projects/Gene/gentrez_stats.cgi?TAXORG=1122 ...
  5. cidrap >> rinderpest
    www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/biosecurity/ag-biosec/anim ...
  6. sequence analysis
    decabada.lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:670
  7. oie - world organisation for animal health
    www.oie.int/boutique/index.php?page=ficprod&id_produit=90&fi ...
  8. oie - world organisation for animal health
    www.oie.int/boutique/index.php?page=ficprod&id_produit=90&fi ...
  9. canadian food inspection agency - animal disease information
    www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/disemala/disemalae.shtml
  10. jenner
    www.jenner.ac.uk/invest_biog_t_barrett.html
  11. cidrap >> animal diseases
    www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/biosecurity/ag-biosec/anim ...
  12. oie - world animal health situation - disease emergency preparednes
    www.oie.int/eng/info/en_prepaurgence.htm
  13. agence canadienne d'inspection des aliments - renseignement sur les maladies animales
    www.inspection.gc.ca/francais/anima/disemala/disemalaf.shtml
  14. insats i sierra leone ett steg framåt - sva
    www.sva.se/sv/undersida/Nyheter-fran-SVA/Insats-i-Sierra-Leo ...
  15. cidrap >> peste des petits ruminants (ppr
    www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/biosecurity/ag-biosec/anim ...
  16. the bioline eprints archive - peste des petits ruminants (ppr) virus antibodies in african grey duiker ( sylvicapra grimmia
    bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca/archive/00000712/index.html

Publications62

  1. The detection of antibody against peste des petits ruminants virus in sheep, goats, cattle and buffaloes
    Haider Ali Khan
    Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Agriculture, Street No 2, Khalsa College, Faisalabad, Pakistan
    Trop Anim Health Prod 40:521-7
    ..antibody-based competitive ELISA (C-ELISA) has been used for the specific measurement of antibodies to peste des petits ruminants (PPR) viruses in sheep, goats, cattle and buffalo...
  2. Monoclonal antibody-based competitive ELISA for simultaneous detection of rinderpest virus and peste des petits ruminants virus antibodies
    Kang Seuk Choi
    National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, 480 Anyang 6 dong, Anyang, Kyonggi 430 824, South Korea
    Vet Microbiol 96:1-16
    ..monoclonal antibody (P-13A9) was developed for simultaneous detection of rinderpest virus (RPV) and peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) antibodies and its diagnostic performance was evaluated...
  3. Matrix protein and glycoproteins F and H of Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus function better as a homologous complex
    M Mahapatra
    Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK
    J Gen Virol 87:2021-9
    ..Previously, a marker vaccine (RPV-PPRFH) was produced for the control of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) disease, where the F and H genes of Rinderpest virus (RPV) were replaced with the equivalent genes ..
  4. Prevalence, distribution, and host range of Peste des petits ruminants virus, Turkey
    Aykut Ozkul
    Ankara University, Turkey
    Emerg Infect Dis 8:708-12
    b>Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV, genus Morbillivirus), which causes a severe disease in sheep and goats, has only recently been officially declared to be present in Turkey...
  5. One-step multiplex RT-PCR assay for the detection of peste des petits ruminants virus in clinical samples
    V Balamurugan
    Division of Virology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar, Nainital District, Uttaranchal, India
    Vet Res Commun 30:655-66
    ..multiplex RT-PCR was standardized to amplify both 337 bp and 191 bp fragments of N and M genes of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV), respectively, and only a 337 bp fragment of N gene of Rinderpest virus (RPV)...
  6. Post vaccination and colostral peste des petits ruminants antibody dynamics in research flocks of Kirdi goats and Foulbe sheep of north Cameroon
    D N Awa
    Institute of Agricultural Research for Development, P O Box 1073, Garoua, Cameroon
    Prev Vet Med 55:265-71
    ..5 and 4.5 months in lambs and kids, respectively. Kids and lambs from immunised or exposed dams should be vaccinated at 4 and 5 months of age, respectively...
  7. Detection of antibodies against peste des petits ruminants virus in sera of cattle, camels, sheep and goats in Sudan
    M Haroun
    Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Nyala, Sudan
    Vet Res Commun 26:537-41
    Detection of antibodies against peste des petits ruminants virus in sera of cattle, camels, sheep and goats in Sudan.
  8. Seroprevalence of, and risk factors for, peste des petits ruminants in sheep and goats in Northern Jordan
    Ahmad M Al Majali
    Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, P O Box 3030, Irbid 22110, Jordan
    Prev Vet Med 85:1-8
    b>Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an economically important disease that affect sheep and goat industry in Asia and Africa...
  9. Detection of peste des petits ruminants virus antigen using immunofiltration and antigen-competition ELISA methods
    G Dhinakar raj
    Department of Animal Biotechnology, Madras Veterinary College, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, India
    Vet Microbiol 129:246-51
    b>Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is one of the most economically important diseases affecting sheep and goats in India...
  10. Prevalence and distribution of peste des petits ruminants virus infection in small ruminants in India
    R P Singh
    Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly (UP)-243122, India
    Rev Sci Tech 23:807-19
    b>Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute febrile viral disease of goats and sheep characterised by mucopurulent nasal and ocular discharges, necrotising and erosive stomatitis, enteritis and pneumonia...
  11. Antibody seroprevalences against peste des petits ruminants (PPR) virus in camels, cattle, goats and sheep in Ethiopia
    G Abraham
    National Animal Health Research Centre, P.O. Box 04, Sebeta, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Prev Vet Med 70:51-7
    ..The peste des petits ruminants (PPR) antibody seroprevalence was 3% in camels, 9% in cattle, 9% in goats and 13% in sheep...
  12. Development of a monoclonal antibody based competitive-ELISA for detection and titration of antibodies to peste des petits ruminants (PPR) virus
    R P Singh
    Division of Virology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar, Nainital 263 138, Uttaranchal, India
    Vet Microbiol 98:3-15
    b>Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute febrile, viral, disease of small ruminants with great economic importance...
  13. Pathogenicity of a local peste des petits ruminants virus isolate in sheep in Turkey
    V Gulyaz
    Central Veterinary Control and Research Institute, Pendik, Istanbul
    Trop Anim Health Prod 37:541-7
  14. Development of an indirect ELISA for the detection of antibodies against Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus in small ruminants
    V Balamurugan
    Division of Virology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar, Uttaranchal, India
    Vet Res Commun 31:355-64
    b>Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute, febrile, highly contagious and economically important viral disease of small ruminants...
  15. Rescue of a chimeric rinderpest virus with the nucleocapsid protein derived from peste-des-petits-ruminants virus: use as a marker vaccine
    Satya Parida
    Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK
    J Gen Virol 88:2019-27
    ..The possibility of using this virus as a marker vaccine in association with a new diagnostic ELISA in the rinderpest eradication programme is discussed...
  16. Goat immune response to capripox vaccine expressing the hemagglutinin protein of peste des petits ruminants
    A Diallo
    CIRAD, Programme Santé Animale, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 969:88-91
    ..Thus, they are clearly indicated as vectors for the development of recombinant vaccines for peste des petits ruminants (PPR)...
  17. The use of antigen-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the diagnosis of rinderpest and peste des petits ruminants in ethiopia
    G Abraham
    Sebeta National Animal Health Research Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Trop Anim Health Prod 33:423-30
    ..ELISA compared to the agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID) test, which also differentiates rinderpest from peste des petits ruminants (PPR)...
  18. Immune responses in goats to recombinant hemagglutinin-neuraminidase glycoprotein of Peste des petits ruminants virus: identification of a T cell determinant
    G Sinnathamby
    Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, 560 012, Bangalore, India
    Vaccine 19:4816-23
    b>Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV), a member of the genus Morbillivirus within the family Paramyxoviridae, causes a fatal disease 'peste des petits ruminants' in goats and sheep...
  19. Evaluation of novel diagnostic tools for peste des petits ruminants virus in naturally infected goat herds
    M Diop
    ISRA - Laboratoire National d'Elevage et de Recherches Vétérinaires, Dakar, Sénégal
    Epidemiol Infect 133:711-7
    ..Antibodies were shown to impair the RP heterologous vaccination. This evaluation offers new prospects for diagnosis and management of PPRV infection as well as for RPV control...
  20. Natural peste des petits ruminants virus infection: novel pathologic findings resembling other morbillivirus infections
    O Kul
    Department of Pathology, Kirikkale University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 71451, Yahsihan, Kirikkale, Turkey
    Vet Pathol 44:479-86
    ..The present study describes pathologic and virologic findings in 15 sheep and 6 goats that died of natural peste des petits ruminants virus infection in Turkey...
  21. Rapid detection of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) virus antigen in Sudan by agar gel precipitation (AGPT) and haemagglutination (HA) tests
    Nussieba A Osman
    Department of Pathology, Parasitology and Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, Sudan University of Science and Technology, P O Pox 204, Khartoum North, Sudan
    Trop Anim Health Prod 40:363-8
    ..The HA time when using chicken RBCs was 20-25 minutes, using goat RBCs was 25-30 minutes and using pig RBCs was 40-45 minutes. The distribution of PPR infection in four different regions of Sudan was investigated...
  22. Development of one-step real-time RT-PCR assay for detection and quantitation of peste des petits ruminants virus
    Jingyue Bao
    China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, Qingdao, Shandong 266032, China
    J Virol Methods 148:232-6
    ..real-time quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) has been described for the detection of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV). Primers and probe were designed based on the nucleocapsid protein gene sequence...
  23. Peste des petits ruminants in a sheep and goat flock in Kayseri province, Turkey
    Y Cam
    Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Erciyes, Kayseri, Turkey
    Vet Rec 157:523-4
  24. The production and evaluation of a standard diagnostic peste des petits ruminants (PPR) hyperimmune serum prepared from the Egyptian antigen (Egypt 87)
    A Kamel Nahed
    Veterinary Serum and Vaccine Research Institute, Abbasia, Cairo, Egypt
    Egypt J Immunol 11:9-14
    The aim of this study was to produce a specific hyperimmune serum for diagnosis of peste des petits ruminants (PPR)...
  25. Interference in the vaccination of cattle against rinderpest virus by antibodies against peste des petits ruminants (PPR) virus
    E Couacy Hymann
    LANADA Laboratoire Central de Pathologie Animale, BP 206 Bingerville, Côte D Ivoire
    Vaccine 24:5679-83
    The ability of the attenuated vaccine 75/1 of peste des petits ruminants to interfere with rinderpest vaccination in cattle was investigated experimentally...
  26. Experimental studies on immunosuppressive effects of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) virus in goats
    K K Rajak
    Division of Virology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI, Mukteswar Campus, Nainital (Uttaranchal) 263138, India
    Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis 28:287-96
    Effect of virulent and attenuated peste des petits ruminants (PPR) virus on the immune response to nonspecific antigen (ovalbumin) was investigated...
  27. Prevalence and mortality rate of peste des petitis ruminant (PPR): possible association with abortion in goat
    Muhammad Abubakar
    National Veterinary Laboratories, MINFAL, Park Road, Islamabad, Pakistan
    Trop Anim Health Prod 40:317-21
    ..As the serum samples from the aborted dams were found positive for PPR antibodies so the study provides the possible association of mortality and prevalence of PPR disease with high rate of abortions in goat...
  28. A bivalent vaccine against goat pox and Peste des Petits ruminants induces protective immune response in goats
    Madhusudan Hosamani
    Division of Virology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute IVRI, Mukteswar 263 138, Nainital, Uttaranchal State, India
    Vaccine 24:6058-64
    Safety and immunogenicity of an experimental combined vaccine comprising attenuated strains of Peste des Petits ruminants virus (PPRV) and goat poxvirus (GTPV) was evaluated in goats...
  29. Rinderpest and peste des petits ruminants viruses exhibit neurovirulence in mice
    Sareen E Galbraith
    School of Biology and Biochemistry, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
    J Neurovirol 8:45-52
    ..CNS complications are rare for measles virus (MV) and are not associated with rinderpest virus (RPV) and peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) infection...
  30. Control of ruminant morbillivirus replication by small interfering RNA
    Renata Servan de Almeida
    CIRAD, Département Systèmes Biologiques, UR 15, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier, France
    J Gen Virol 88:2307-11
    ..The findings of this work highlight the potential for siRNA molecules to be developed as therapeutic agents for the treatment of PPRV and RPV infections...
  31. Reverse genetics for peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (PPRV): promoter and protein specificities
    Dalan Bailey
    Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Ash Road, Woking, Surrey GU24 ONF, United Kingdom
    Virus Res 126:250-5
    ..The PPRV minigenome was also shown not to strictly comply with the "rule of six"in vitro...
  32. Identification of T-helper and linear B epitope in the hypervariable region of nucleocapsid protein of PPRV and its use in the development of specific antibodies to detect viral antigen
    H J Dechamma
    Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Molecular Virology Lab, Bangalore Campus, Hebbal, Bangalore, India
    Vet Microbiol 118:201-11
    b>Peste des petits ruminants is a highly contagious viral disease of small ruminants making its diagnosis difficult from the similar symptoms of Rinderpest...
  33. Surveillance of wildlife as a tool for monitoring rinderpest and peste des petits ruminants in West Africa
    E Couacy-Hymann
    Laboratoire central de pathologie animale, BP 206, Bingerville, Côte-d'Ivoire
    Rev Sci Tech 24:869-77
    The authors provide a report on the surveillance of rinderpest virus (RPV) and peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) in the wildlife population in Côte d'Ivoire...
  34. Use of Akaike information criteria for model selection and inference. An application to assess prevention of gastrointestinal parasitism and respiratory mortality of Guinean goats in Kolda, Senegal
    Renaud Lancelot
    Programme Productions Animales, Département Elevage et Médecine Vétérinaire CIRAD EMVT, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
    Prev Vet Med 55:217-40
    ..Preventive measures for respiratory disease included vaccination against peste des petits ruminants (PPR) and pneumonic pasteurellosis (Pasteurella multocida types A and D)...
  35. Early detection of viral excretion from experimentally infected goats with peste-des-petits ruminants virus
    E Couacy Hymann
    LANADA Laboratoire Central de Pathologie Animale de Bingerville, Cote d Ivoire
    Prev Vet Med 78:85-8
    ..This experiment indicates that incubatory carriers therefore might play a role in the transmission of PPRV among small ruminants...
  36. Persistent detection of peste de petits ruminants antigen in the faeces of recovered goats
    M C O Ezeibe
    Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
    Trop Anim Health Prod 40:517-9
    b>Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) disease was confirmed in West African Dwarf goats. They were managed symptomatically with antibiotics and antidarrhoeics...
  37. Production and characterization of monoclonal antibodies to peste des petits ruminants (PPR) virus
    R P Singh
    Division of Virology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar, Nainital 263 138 Uttaranchal, India
    Vet Res Commun 28:623-39
    b>Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute, febrile viral disease of small ruminants, caused by a virus of the genus Morbillivirus. PPR and rinderpest viruses are antigenically related and need to be differentiated serologically...
  38. The production and evaluation of a standard reference peste des petits ruminants (PPR)-diagnostic antigen using a sonication technique
    Samia A Ayad
    Rinderpest Research and Vaccine Production Department, Veterinary Serum and Vaccine Research Institute, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt
    Egypt J Immunol 11:179-82
    b>Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a widely spread viral disease with limited sporadic outbreaks particularly among small ruminants. The diagnosis depends on the detection of antibodies by commercially available expensive reagents...
  39. Development and characterization of a stable vero cell line constitutively expressing Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) hemagglutinin protein and its potential use as antigen in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for serosurveillance of PPRV
    V Balamurugan
    National Morbillivirus Referral Laboratory, Division of Virology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar, Nainital Distt Uttaranchal 263 138, India
    Clin Vaccine Immunol 13:1367-72
    We developed and characterized a stable Vero cell line constitutively expressing Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) hemagglutinin (H) protein and assessed its potential use as diagnostic antigen in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (..
  40. Analysis of the matrix protein gene sequence of the Asian lineage of peste-des-petits ruminants vaccine virus
    D Muthuchelvan
    Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin 682029, India
    Vet Microbiol 113:83-7
    ..A high degree of conservation of several amino acids of this protein observed previously was also confirmed in this study...
  41. Rapid quality control of a live attenuated Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) vaccine by monoclonal antibody based sandwich ELISA
    P Saravanan
    National Morbillivirus Referral Laboratory, Division of Virology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar Campus, Distt Nainital, Uttaranchal 263138, India
    Biologicals 36:1-6
    b>Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious and economically important viral disease of goats and sheep...
  42. Sequence analysis of the nucleoprotein gene of Asian lineage peste des petits ruminants vaccine virus
    D Muthuchelvan
    Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin, India
    Vet Res Commun 30:957-63
    ..To the best of our knowledge this is the first report describing the nucleocapsid gene sequence of PPRV Indian isolate...
  43. Recent epidemiology of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV)
    Pronab Dhar
    Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar Campus, 263138, Uttar Pradesh, Nainital, India
    Vet Microbiol 88:153-9
    b>Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an economically important viral disease of goats and sheep first described in west Africa in the 1940s...
  44. Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) outbreak in Tajikistan
    O Kwiatek
    CIRAD, Département EMVT, UPR15, FAO OIE Reference Laboratory for Peste des Petits Ruminants, TA 30 G, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
    J Comp Pathol 136:111-9
    The occurrence of outbreaks of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in three districts of Tajikistan is described...
  45. Comparison of virus isolation and polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis of peste des petits ruminants
    K Brindha
    Department of Animal Biotechnology, Madras Veterinary College, Chennai, India
    Acta Virol 45:169-72
    Oculonasal swabs and tissue samples collected from peste des petits ruminants (PPR) suspected sheep and goats were tested for presence of the virus of peste des petits ruminants (PPRV) or its RNA by reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) and ..
  46. Peste des petits ruminants has been widely present in southern India since, if not before, the late 1980s
    W P Taylor
    14 Beach Crescent, BN17 5NT, Littlehampton, UK
    Prev Vet Med 52:305-12
    ..from passive disease reports, we found that epidemics-reportedly due to rinderpest-were in fact due to peste des petits ruminants (PPRs)...
  47. Vaccination for the control of peste des petits ruminants
    A Diallo
    Animal Production Unit, FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory, Agency's Laboratories, Seibersdorf, Austria
    Dev Biol (Basel) 119:93-8
  48. Concurrent peste des petits ruminants virus and pestivirus infection in stillborn twin lambs
    O Kul
    Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathology, Kirikkale University, Yahsihan, Kirikkale, Turkey
    Vet Pathol 45:191-6
    Concurrent infection with peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) and pestivirus was diagnosed in stillborn twin lambs...
  49. In situ detection of PPR virus antigen in skin papules around the mouth of sheep experimentally infected with PPR virus
    A al-Naeem
    College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Resources, King Faisal University, Hofuf, P.O. Box 1757, Al-Ahasa 31982, Saudi Arabia
    Trop Anim Health Prod 40:239-41
  50. Rapid and sensitive detection of peste des petits ruminants virus by a polymerase chain reaction assay
    E Couacy-Hymann
    CIRAD, Programme Santé Animale, TA 30/G, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier, Cedex 5, France
    J Virol Methods 100:17-25
    A rapid and specific test was developed for the diagnosis of peste des petits ruminants disease. This assay is based on the rapid purification of RNA on glass beads followed by the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)...
  51. A sandwich-ELISA for the diagnosis of Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) infection in small ruminants using anti-nucleocapsid protein monoclonal antibody
    R P Singh
    Division of Virology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar, Nainital, India
    Arch Virol 149:2155-70
    ..PPR outbreaks from various parts of India have been confirmed using the test. Findings suggested that the newly developed ELISA is suitable for PPR diagnosis under field conditions...
  52. Evaluation of the virulence of some strains of peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (PPRV) in experimentally infected West African dwarf goats
    E Couacy Hymann
    LANADA Laboratoire Central de Pathologie Animale, BP 206, Bingerville, Côte D Ivoire
    Vet J 173:178-83
    ..The viruses studied contained examples of PPRV from specific lineage groups based on their nucleoprotein PPRV gene. This experiment indicated that virulence characteristics might be a useful marker to help classify PPRV isolates...
  53. Comparative sequence analysis of the large polymerase protein (L) gene of peste-des-petits ruminants (PPR) vaccine virus of Indian origin
    D Muthuchelvan
    Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin, India
    Arch Virol 150:2467-81
    ..To the best of our knowledge this is the first report describing the polymerase gene sequence of PPRV Indian isolate...
  54. Development of a dual recombinant vaccine to protect small ruminants against peste-des-petits-ruminants virus and capripoxvirus infections
    G Berhe
    CIRAD, Programme Santé Animale, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
    J Virol 77:1571-7
    ..A quick and efficient method was used to select a highly purified recombinant virus clone. A trial showed that a dose of this recombinant as low as 0.1 PFU protected goats against challenge with a virulent PPRV strain...
  55. Scalable culture systems using different cell lines for the production of Peste des Petits ruminants vaccine
    Ana Carina Silva
    ITQB UNL IBET, Apartado 12, Oeiras, Portugal
    Vaccine 26:3305-11
    b>Peste des Petits ruminants (PPR) is considered as one of the major constraints to the productivity of small ruminants in Africa and Asian countries...
  56. Control of peste des petits ruminants: classical and new generation vaccines
    A Diallo
    Animal Production Unit, FAO IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory, IAEA Laboratories, Seibersdorf, Austria
    Dev Biol (Basel) 114:113-9
    b>Peste des Petits Ruminants is a highly contagious disease of domestic and wild small ruminants. It seems to be the major constraint in the development of small ruminant production in areas where it is endemic...
  57. Characteristic and non-characteristic pathological findings in peste des petits ruminants (PPR) of sheep in the Ege district of Turkey
    N Toplu
    Department of Pathology, Veterinary Faculty, Adnan Menderes University, Işikli, Aydin 09016, Turkey
    J Comp Pathol 131:135-41
    ..the pathological and immunohistochemical findings in naturally infected lambs from three outbreaks of peste des petits ruminants in Mugla and Aydin provinces of the Ege district of Turkey...
  58. Long-term storage at tropical temperature of dried-blood filter papers for detection and genotyping of RNA and DNA viruses by direct PCR
    V Michaud
    CIRAD, UR Contrôle des Maladies, Montpellier F 34398, France
    J Virol Methods 146:257-65
    ..Two animal viruses, African swine fever, a large double-stranded DNA virus and Peste des Petits Ruminants, a negative single-stranded RNA virus, were used to validate the method...
  59. Severe PPR infection in gazelles kept under semi-free range conditions
    E M E Abu Elzein
    College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Resources, King Faisal University, PO Box 1757 Hofuf, Al Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia
    J Vet Med B Infect Dis Vet Public Health 51:68-71
    ..A virus was isolated from the ailing gazelles which was identified as Peste des Petits Ruminants virus (PPRV). Epidemiology of the disease in the Arabian peninsula is discussed.
  60. Rapid competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of antibodies to peste des petits ruminants virus
    Kang Seuk Choi
    Foreign Animal Disease Division, National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, Anyang, Kyoung gi, Korea
    Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 12:542-7
    b>Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a contagious viral disease of small ruminants that is of economic importance in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia...
  61. Mapping the Peste des Petits Ruminants virus nucleoprotein: identification of two domains involved in protein self-association
    S C Bodjo
    Animal Production Unit, FAO AIEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory, IAEA Laboratories, Wagramerstrasse 5, P O Box 100, A 1400 Vienna, Austria
    Virus Res 131:23-32
    ..Here, we report on the cloning of the Peste des Petits Ruminants virus (PPRV) N gene into the baculovirus vector and the expression of the protein in insect cells...