Peste des Petits Ruminants outbreaks in Tunisia in 2016
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Soufien Sghaier; Federica Monaco; Gian Mario Cosseddu; Fabrizia Valleriani; Salah Hammami; Sonia Ben Hassen; Massimiliano Orsini; Heni Haj Ammar; Antonio Petrini
- Source
- Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 65:1416-1420
- Subject
- 0301 basic medicine
Tunisia
040301 veterinary sciences
Sheep Diseases
Biology
Virus
Disease Outbreaks
Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus
0403 veterinary science
03 medical and health sciences
Diagnostic specimens
Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants
Animals
Phylogeny
Goat Diseases
Sheep
General Veterinary
General Immunology and Microbiology
Molecular epidemiology
Goats
Outbreak
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
General Medicine
Virology
Nucleoprotein
Nucleoproteins
030104 developmental biology
- Language
- ISSN
- 1865-1674
In Tunisia, 86 outbreaks of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) were reported in ovine and caprine herds in 2016. Molecular characterization of PPRV strains was carried out by partial sequencing of nucleoprotein (Np) gene from diagnostic specimens. The results showed that disease outbreaks were caused by virus strains closely related to PPRV strains collected in Egypt in 2014 and 2015.