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. 2013 Dec;19(12):2037-40.
doi: 10.3201/eid1912.130973.

Peste des petits ruminants infection among cattle and wildlife in northern Tanzania

Tiziana Lembo, Christopher Oura, Satya Parida, Richard Hoare, Lorraine Frost, Robert Fyumagwa, Fredrick Kivaria, Chobi Chubwa, Richard Kock, Sarah Cleaveland, Carrie Batten

Peste des petits ruminants infection among cattle and wildlife in northern Tanzania

Tiziana Lembo et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Dec.

Abstract

We investigated peste des petits ruminants (PPR) infection in cattle and wildlife in northern Tanzania. No wildlife from protected ecosystems were seropositive. However, cattle from villages where an outbreak had occurred among small ruminants showed high PPR seropositivity, indicating that spillover infection affects cattle. Thus, cattle could be of value for PPR serosurveillance.

Keywords: Tanzania; cattle; disease eradication; morbillivirus; peste des petits ruminants; rinderpest; serosurveillance; viruses; wildlife.

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Areas in northwestern Tanzania where seroprevalence of antibodies to peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) was studied in cattle and buffalo. Cattle were sampled in 2011; all had been alive during a 2008 PPRV outbreak among small ruminants. Arrow shows location of 1 village affected during the 2008 outbreak (7). Buffalo were sampled during 2010–2012 in Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area; the locations of PPRV-seronegative buffalo are shown.
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