Peste des petits ruminants in Ethiopian goats.
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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Shola Zonal Disease Investigation Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary*; D005002:Ethiopia / Q000453:epidemiology; D015511:Goat Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000821:virology; D006041:Goats; D018185:Morbillivirus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary*; D018107:Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus / Q000302:isolation & purification
D000914:Antibodies, Viral