The role of camels in dessimination of peste des petits ruminants virus among sheep and goats in Saudi Arabia [electronic resource].

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To study peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in camels and investigate role played by camels in transmission of PPR virus,50 C2 mel, 50 goat and 50 sheep in contact with camels were used in the study. The animals were belonged to a private animal farm in the Kingdon of Saudi Arabia. These animals were examined clinically, virologically (virus isolation, VI), and by using molecular biology-based ..echnique (Reverse transcription- polymerase chain reaction, RT-PCRI. All used animals were clinically healthy as shown by clinical examination performed at the beginning of this work. Clinical examination was done three times a week while VI and RT-PCR were performed twice one month apart. Clinical examination showed that 4 camels were :;uffered from fever, nasal discharge and cough while 21 goats were mffered from fever, stomatitis, nasal and ocular discharges, diarrhea md pneumonia after two weeks from contact with infected camels.

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