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. 2002 Jul;8(7):708-12.
doi: 10.3201/eid0807.010471.

Prevalence, distribution, and host range of Peste des petits ruminants virus, Turkey

Aykut Ozkul  1 , Yilmaz Akca, Feray Alkan, Thomas Barrett, Taner Karaoglu, Seval Bilge Dagalp, John Anderson, Kadir Yesilbag, Can Cokcaliskan, Ayse Gencay, Ibrahim Burgu
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Prevalence, distribution, and host range of Peste des petits ruminants virus, Turkey

Aykut Ozkul et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002 Jul.

Abstract

Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV, genus Morbillivirus), which causes a severe disease in sheep and goats, has only recently been officially declared to be present in Turkey. We carried out a study to determine the prevalence, distribution, and host range of PPRV in Turkey. A total of 1,607 animals, reared in 18 different locations, were monitored for the presence of antibodies to PPRV and the related virus of large ruminants, Rinderpest virus (RPV). Only two farms had animals that were free of antibody responses to either disease. Prevalence for PPRV infection varied (range 0.87%-82.6%) and was higher in sheep (29.2%) than in goats (20%). The overall antibody responses to PPRV and RPV were 22.4% and 6.28%, respectively. Two PPRVs of lineage 4, which comprises many other PPRVs whose origins are in the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Asia, were isolated from Turkish sheep.

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Figure 1
Areas of Turkey sampled to detect the presence of infection with Peste des petits ruminants virus and Rinderpest virus. Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of serologic test materials collected from each location. Rectangles indicate a single outbreak; shaded provinces had multiple outbreaks. Key: 1, Aydin (100); 2, Denizli (164); 3, Balikesir (40); 4, Bursa (40); 5, Kocaeli (100); 6, Sakarya (100); 7, Eskisehir (5); 8, Bolu (160); 9, Isparta (100); 10, Ankara (20); 11, Cihanbeyli (75); 12, Konya (50); 13, Amasya (20); 14, Sivas (109); 15, Malatya (3); 16, Elazig (272); 17, Batman (50); 16, Van (199).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Phylogenetic relationship of the Peste des petits ruminants viruses isolated in Turkey in 2000 to other virus isolates. The tree is based on partial sequence data from the fusion (F) protein gene and was derived by using the PHYLIP DNADIST and FITCH programs . Branch lengths are proportional to the genetic distances between viruses and the hypothetical common ancestor at the nodes in the tree. The bar represents nucleotide substitutions per position.
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