Experimental infection of Nigerian sheep and goats with bovine virus diarrhoea virus.
Apart from leucopenia and a low grade pyrexia Nigerian goats showed no ill effects following inoculation with bovine virus diarrhoea virus. Sheep showed a variable leucopenia without pyrexia. No difficulty should arise in differentiating BVD infections from peste des petits ruminants.
D000818:Animals; D001912:Bovine Virus Diarrhea-Mucosal Disease; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases; D001908:Diarrhea Viruses, Bovine Viral; D006041:Goats; D009549:Nigeria; D012756:Sheep; D012757:Sheep Diseases / Q000209:etiology*