An outbreak of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) at Aswan province, Egypt evaliuation of some novel tools for diagnosis of PPR [electronic resource].

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An outbreak among goats and sheep at Aswa n province, Egypt was observed. This outbreak manifested clinically b) respiratory, ocular and digestive signs. To identity the cause of this outl >reak, 100 goat and 100 sheep were used in the study, some of these aJ umals (70 goat and 45 sheep) were clinically abnormal while the rest (f them (30 goat and 55 sheep) were apparently healthy. These a'limals <xamined clinically and serologically. Serological examinations induded recent rapid competitive enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (c-ELISA) and virus neutralization test (VNT) in order to detect the antibodies of the suspected aetiological agent of the outbreak. Clinical examination recorded fever, mucopurulent nasal and oc .I1ar discharge,erosive stomatitis , dia.1Thea and pneumonia. Clinical e~ amination proved that clinical signs were more severe in goats than sheep. Some infected animals (I3 goat and 6 sheep), as showed from s<:Tological results, were apparently healthy. 83 examined goat and 5I Sleep were positive to rapid c-ELISA while VNT recorded 76 positive goat and 47 sheep. All samples gave positive result with VNT were J10sitive with rapid cELISA. Clinical findings and serological results p 'oved that the cause of the oubreak was the virus which causes peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in small ruminants.

Summary in Arabic.