Article
First Report of the Emergence of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Lineage IV Virus in Senegal
2023-12-12
Abstract excerpt
PPR is a highly contagious viral disease and one of the deadliest affecting wild goats, sheep and small ruminants, however goats are generally more sensitive. The causative agent is the Peste des Petits Ruminants virus (PPRv) which is a single-stranded RNA virus of negative polarity belonging to the Paramyxoviridae family. In February 2020, an active outbreak of PPR was re-ported in a herd of a transhumant farmer...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4064519b-1ee5-559e-a4bd-513b012f7a94
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202312.0798.v1
