Peste des petits ruminants in Ethiopian goats

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jun 1994 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Tropical Animal Health and Production, volume 26, pages 69-73 (issn: 0049-4747, eissn: 1573-7438,

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Authors: P L, Roeder; G, Abraham; G, Kenfe; T, Barrett;

doi: 10.1007/bf02239901

pmid: 7941031

Peste des petits ruminants in Ethiopian goats

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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.

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Pirbright Institute
United Kingdom

Keywords

Goat Diseases, Goats, Animals, Ethiopia, Antibodies, Viral, Morbillivirus Infections, Disease Outbreaks, Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus

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