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peste des petits ruminants

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peste des petits ruminants
[Fr.] a highly infectious and fatal disease of sheep and goats caused by a paramyxovirus in the genus Morbillivirus which is very closely related to the rinderpest virus. Typical signs are purulent nasal discharge, erosive stomatitis, diarrhea and bronchopneumonia. The spread is rapid and the mortality rate high. See also rinderpest. Called also contagious pustular stomatitis.
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For those reasons the differential diagnosis must be performed against contagious ecthyma, foot and mouth disease, photosensitization, pneumonia, polyarthritis, footrot, foot, abscesses, plant poisonings, peste des petits ruminants, coenurosis, epizootic haemorrhagic disease of deer.
SEROLOGICAL AND ENTOMOLOGICAL MONITORING OF BLUETONGUE IN ROMANIA by Baraitareanu Stelian / Biological sciences community
Serologic and molecular evidence indicates that peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) infection has emerged in goats and sheep in the Ngari region of southwestern Tibet, People's Republic of China.
Peste des petits ruminants virus in Tibet, China by Wang, Zhiliang; Bao, Jingyue; Wu, Xiaodong; Liu, Yutian; Li, Lin; Liu, Chunju; Suo, Longciren; Xie, / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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.
Prevalence, distribution, and host range of peste des petits ... by Burgu, Ibrahim / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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