Neuropathy of peste des petits ruminants virus vaccine (Egypt-87) in Experimental animals.

Abstract: Thirty two sucking swiss mice, injected intracerebrally with as attenuated strain of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) and thereafter sacrificed under ether nacrosis at time points of 3,5,7 and 9 days post inoculation (8 animals/time point). Pathological lesions in the brain. were examined. These lesions were in the form of congestion, hemorrhages, gilosis and encephalomalacia.
Twenty eight sucklimg Swiss mice, injected with PPRV through the same route and kept under keen clinical observation period of one month did not exhibit any apparent clinical moribund symptoms. The injected virus could not be rescued from the brains of sacrificed animals. The issue of PPRV (attenuated strain) replication in the central nervous system of suckling Swiss mice is dicussed.
Publication year 2011
Pages 313-326
Organization Name
City القاهرة
serial title 29th arab veterinary medical congress
Author(s) from ARC
External authors (outside ARC)
    حنان شريف الظواهري معهد بحوث الامصال واللقاحات البيطرية
    جمال محمد حسين
Agris Categories Animal diseases
Publication Type Conference/Workshop