title: Severe PPR infection in gazelles kept under semi-free range conditions.
abstract: By the end of March 2002, a collection of some 200 gazelles, kept under semi range conditions in Saudi Arabia, was hit by a highly fatal peracute disease. The morbidity rate was 51% while the case mortality rate was 100%. Clinico-pathological and virological investigations were carried out. A virus was isolated from the ailing gazelles which was identified as Peste des Petits Ruminants virus (PPRV). Epidemiology of the disease in the Arabian peninsula is discussed.
authors.affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Resources, King Faisal University, PO Box 1757 Hofuf, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia. emabuelzein@kfu.edu.sa
authors.forename: E M E Abu
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Elzein
authors.forename: F M T
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Housawi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bashareek
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Gameel
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Al-Afaleq
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D003670:Deer; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary*; D019084:Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect / Q000662:veterinary; D005779:Immunodiffusion / Q000662:veterinary; D009500:Neutralization Tests / Q000662:veterinary; D029021:Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D018107:Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012529:Saudi Arabia / Q000453:epidemiology