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Pesti des Petits Ruminants virus infection in animals -
H. C. Chauhan, B. S. Chandel, H. N. Kher, A. I. Dadawala, S. M.
Agrawal
Vet World. 2009; 2(4): 150-155
doi: 10.5455/vetworld.2009.150-155
Abstract
For centuries morbillivirus infections have had a huge impact on
both human beings and animals. Morbilliviruses are highly
contagious pathogens that cause some of the most devastating
viral diseases of humans and animals world wide. They include
measles virus (MV), canine distemper virus (CDV), rinderpest
virus (RPV) and peste des petits ruminants (PPRV) virus.
Furthermore, new emerging infectious diseases of morbilliviruses
with significant ecological consequences of marine mammals have
been discovered in the past decades. Phocid distemper virus (PDV)
in seals and the cetacean morbillivirus (CMV) have been found in
dolphins, whales and porpoises. Peste des petits ruminants (PPR)
is a highly contagious, infectious , an acute or sub acute viral
disease of domestic and wild small ruminants characterized by
fever, oculonasal discharges, stomatitis, conjunctivitis,
gastroenteritis and pneumonia. Goats are more severely affected
than sheep. It is also known as pseudorinderpest of small
ruminants, pest of small ruminants, pest of sheep and goats,
kata, stomatitis- pneumoentritis syndrome, contagious pustular
stomatitis and pneumoentritis complex. It is one of the major
notifiable diseases of the World Organization for Animal Health
(OIE).
Keywords:
Ruminant, Infection, Animal, Virus, Incubation, Ruminant,
Economic, Emerging Disease.
