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. 2025 Oct:194:105840.
doi: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2025.105840. Epub 2025 Aug 7.

Identification of peste des petits ruminants virus, Greece, 2024

Aikaterini Kirtzalidou  1 , Angeliki Katsifa  1 , Georgios Komitas  2 , Anna Xexaki  2 , Athanasios Konstantinidis  3 , Dimitrios Vourvidis  1 , Maria Gianniou  2 , Olivier Kwiatek  4 , Samia Guendouz  4 , Arnaud Bataille  4 , Thomas Alexandropoulos  2 , Konstantia E Tasioudi  5
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Identification of peste des petits ruminants virus, Greece, 2024

Aikaterini Kirtzalidou et al. Res Vet Sci. 2025 Oct.

Abstract

The first PPR outbreak in Greece was laboratory confirmed in the region of Thessaly on the 11th of July 2024. A total of 86 farms in multiple regions were infected and no additional outbreaks have been reported in Greece since 1st of November 2024. To assess the origin of PPRV identified in Greece, the sequence obtained was aligned with a curated dataset of partial N gene sequences. The determined PPRV strain responsible for the first outbreaks in Greece was most closely related to PPR viruses clustered in Lineage IV North-East Africa group. This finding raises concerns about the virus transmission pathways and entry of PPR into Europe.

Keywords: Genomic surveillance; Greece; Peste des petits ruminants; Small ruminant; Transboundary disease.

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