Peste des petits ruminants in Ethiopian goats.

Abstract

An outbreak of disease characterised by fever, ocular and nasal discharge, coughing and sneezing, oral necrosis, diarrhoea, enteritis and pneumonia in goats was shown by the use of specific cDNA probes to have been peste des petits ruminants, confirmed for the first time in Ethiopia. Both morbidity and mortality rates were high in goats but sheep were not affected.

• Authors: P L Roeder, G Abraham, G Kenfe, T Barrett
• Journal: Tropical animal health and production (Trop Anim Health Prod) Vol. 26 Issue 2 Pg. 69-73 (May 1994) ISSN: 0049-4747 [Print] United States
• PMID: 7941031 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Antibodies, Viral

Topics

• Animals
• Antibodies, Viral (blood)
• Disease Outbreaks (veterinary)
• Ethiopia (epidemiology)
• Goat Diseases (epidemiology, mortality, virology)
• Goats
• Morbillivirus Infections (complications, epidemiology, mortality, veterinary)
• Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (isolation & purification)