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The early detection of peste-des-petits-ruminants (PPR) virus antigens and nucleic acid from experimentally infected goats using RT-PCR and immunocapture ELISA techniques.

Abstract
Goats were infected subcutaneously with different African and Indian isolates of peste-des-petits-ruminants virus. Typical signs of disease were recorded from day 6 post infection for all isolates. Ocular, nasal and mouth samples were tested for the presence of virus antigen or nucleic acid using the immunocapture ELISA (ICE) and the RT-PCR technique. Using ICE, virus antigen was detected at day 4 in ocular and nasal samples of goats infected with Côte-d'Ivoire 89 and in the ocular, nasal and mouth samples with the India, Calcutta strains. By day 5, all samples from both these groups were positive while ocular and nasal samples from groups with Sudan-Sennar and Nigeria 75/1 strains became positive. With the RT-PCR technique virus nucleic acid, presumed to be associated with infectious virus excretion, was detected at day 3 in oral and nasal samples in groups infected with Côte-d'Ivoire 89 and India-Calcutta strains. From day 6-9, all samples from all groups were positive with both techniques. This experiment demonstrated that PPR virus antigens and nucleic acid, presumed to be related to infectious virus, is excreted 2-3days before the appearance of clinical signs whatever the technique used which is of epidemiological importance in controlling the spread of the disease. The ICE being easier to perform in developing countries can be recommended as a useful method to investigate PPR in small ruminants flocks at an early stage to prevent the diffusion of the disease.
AuthorsE Couacy-Hymann, S C Bodjo, M Y Koffi, C Kouakou, T Danho
JournalResearch in veterinary science (Res Vet Sci) Vol. 87 Issue 2 Pg. 332-5 (Oct 2009) ISSN: 1532-2661 [Electronic] England
PMID19339027 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Antigens, Viral
  • DNA, Viral
  • RNA, Viral
Topics
  • Africa, Western
  • Animals
  • Antigens, Viral (analysis)
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • DNA, Viral (analysis)
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (methods, veterinary)
  • Eye (virology)
  • Goat Diseases (virology)
  • Goats
  • India
  • Mouth (virology)
  • Nose (virology)
  • Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants (diagnosis, immunology, virology)
  • Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus (genetics, immunology, isolation & purification)
  • RNA, Viral (analysis)
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction

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