National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an OIE notifiable, highly contagious and fatal disease of small ruminants causing significant economic losses to the farmers in term of morbidity, mortality, preventive and treatment measures cost. The present study report three outbreaks of PPR in two districts of Punjab state affecting migratory flocks of goats in 2016-17. Younger animals were more susceptible to PPR than adults. None of the affected animals were vaccinated against PPR. Presumptive diagnosis of the disease was done on the basis of history, clinical signs, mortality pattern, postmortem and histopathological findings. Mesenteric lymph node collected from dead animal was found positive for F gene by RT-PCR which is specific to PPR virus. PPR has become endemic in the country and there is urgent need to educate the farmers regarding the vaccination of small ruminants against PPR to prevent the future losses.
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