SEROEPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF PESTE DES PETITS RUMINANTS (PPR) VIRUS IN SHEEP AND GOATS IN GUJARAT STATE
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2006-08
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY SARDARKRUSHINAGAR DANTIWADA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
Abstract
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute or
subacute viral disease of small ruminants cause by Peste des
petits ruminants virus in genus Morbillivirus of the family
Paramyxoviridae. The disease is characterized by pyrexia,
naso-occular discharge, necrotic stomatits, diarrhoea,
pneumonia and death. The disease was first observed in 1940
in sheep and goats in Ivory Coast (Gargadennec and Lalane,
1942). In India, the disease was first reported in sheep in the
village Arasur in villipurum District of Tamilnadu, South
India (Shaila et al., 1989). The disease has been quite
common in South India.
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