SEROPREVALENCE OF PESTE DES PETITS RUMINANTS IN GOATS OF SOUTH GUJARAT

摘要

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute febrile viral disease of goats and sheep. It is characterized by fever, nasal and ocular discharge, erosion on nasal mucosa, stomatitis, anorexia, coughing, enteritis and depression (Tariq et al., 2014). OIE has identified PPR as a notifiable and economically important transboundary viral disease of sheep and goats. Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) is an RNA virus belonging to the genus Morbillivirus in the family Paramyxoviridae and is closely related to rinderpest virus (Couacy-Hymann et al., 1995), measles and canine distemper (Gibbs et al., 1979). PPRV is usually transmitted by aerosol way, but may also spread through direct contact, contaminated water or feed and produce 10-100% morbidity (Aytekin et al., 2011). The first confirmed outbreak of PPR in sheep with 25 % mortality was reported in Arasur village, Villipuram district of Tamil Nadu during 1987, where characteristic clinical signs pertaining to PPR were noticed (Shaila et al., 1989).Since its first occurrence in 1987, PPR is now endemic in India and it attacks goats more severely than sheep (Singh et al., 2004). Previous studies reported 64.28% seroprevalence rate in goats of Navsari district of Gujarat (Ranaware et al., 2012). Thepresent study describes sero-prevalence of PPR in goats in Nasvari and Valsad districts of south Gujarat.