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Review of Peste des Petits Ruminants Occurrence and Spread in Tanzania (2021)
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Mdetele, D., Komba, E., Misago, S., Misinzo, G., Kock, R., & Jones, B. (2021). Review of Peste des Petits Ruminants Occurrence and Spread in Tanzania. Animals, 11(6), https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11061698

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an important transboundary disease of domestic small ruminants, camels and wild artiodactyls. The disease has significant socioeconomic impacts on communities that depend on livestock for their livelihood, and is a... Read More about Review of Peste des Petits Ruminants Occurrence and Spread in Tanzania.

Peste des petits ruminants virus infection at the wildlife-livestock interface in the Greater Serengeti ecosystem, 2015-2019 (2021)
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Jones, B. A., Mahapatra, M., Mdetele, D., Keyyu, J., Gakuya, F., Eblate, E., …Kock, R. (2021). Peste des petits ruminants virus infection at the wildlife-livestock interface in the Greater Serengeti ecosystem, 2015-2019. Viruses,

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a viral disease of goats and sheep that occurs in Africa, the Middle East and Asia with severe impact on livelihoods and livestock trade. Many wild artiodactyls are susceptible to PPR virus (PPRV) infection, and so... Read More about Peste des petits ruminants virus infection at the wildlife-livestock interface in the Greater Serengeti ecosystem, 2015-2019.

Herd-level animal management factors associated with the occurrence of bovine neonatal pancytopenia in calves in a multicountry study (2017)
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Sauter-Louis, C., Jones, B. A., Henning, J., Stoll, A., Nielen, M., Van Schaik, G., …Pfeiffer, D. U. (2017). Herd-level animal management factors associated with the occurrence of bovine neonatal pancytopenia in calves in a multicountry study. PLoS ONE, 12(7), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179878

Since 2007, mortality associated with a previously unreported haemorrhagic disease has been observed in young calves in several European countries. The syndrome, which has been named ‘bovine neonatal pancytopenia’ (BNP), is characterised by thrombocy... Read More about Herd-level animal management factors associated with the occurrence of bovine neonatal pancytopenia in calves in a multicountry study.

Development and Testing of a Field Diagnostic Assay for Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus (2014)
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Baron, J., Fishbourne, E., Couacy-Hyman, E., Abubakar, M., Jones, B. A., Frost, L., …Baron, M. D. (2014). Development and Testing of a Field Diagnostic Assay for Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 61(5), 390-396. https://doi.org/10.1111/tbed.12266

We have developed an immunochromatographic test for the diagnosis of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) under field conditions. The diagnostic assay has been tested in the laboratory and also under field conditions in Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Ethiopia an... Read More about Development and Testing of a Field Diagnostic Assay for Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus.

The Economic Impact of Eradicating Peste des Petits Ruminants: A Benefit-Cost Analysis
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Jones, B. A., Rich, K. M., Mariner, J. C., Anderson, J., Jeggo, M., Thevasagayam, S., …Roeder, P. (in press). The Economic Impact of Eradicating Peste des Petits Ruminants: A Benefit-Cost Analysis. PLoS ONE, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149982

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an important cause of mortality and production loss among sheep and goats in the developing world. Despite control efforts in a number of countries, it has continued to spread across Africa and Asia, placing an inc... Read More about The Economic Impact of Eradicating Peste des Petits Ruminants: A Benefit-Cost Analysis.