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Characterisation of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Disease in Pastoralist Flocks in Ngorongoro District of Northern Tanzania and Bluetongue Virus Co-Infection (2020)
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Jones, B. A., Mahapatra, M., Chubwa, C., Clarke, B., Batten, C., Hicks, H., …Parida, S. (2020). Characterisation of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Disease in Pastoralist Flocks in Ngorongoro District of Northern Tanzania and Bluetongue Virus Co-Infection. Viruses, 12(4), 389. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12040389

Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) disease was first confirmed in Tanzania in 2008 in sheep and goats in Ngorongoro District, northern Tanzania, and is now endemic in this area. This study aimed to characterise PPR disease in pastoralist small ruminant... Read More about Characterisation of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Disease in Pastoralist Flocks in Ngorongoro District of Northern Tanzania and Bluetongue Virus Co-Infection.

Eradication of peste des petits ruminants virus and the wildlife-livestock interface (2020)
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Fine, A. E., Pruvot, M., Benfield, C. T. O., Caron, A., Cattoli, G., Chardonnet, P., …Njeumi, F. (2020). Eradication of peste des petits ruminants virus and the wildlife-livestock interface. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7(50), https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00050

Growing evidence suggests that multiple wildlife species can be infected with peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV), with important consequences for the potential maintenance of PPRV in communities of susceptible hosts, and the threat that PPRV may... Read More about Eradication of peste des petits ruminants virus and the wildlife-livestock interface.

Peste des Petits Ruminants at the Wildlife–Livestock Interface in the Northern Albertine Rift and Nile Basin, East Africa (2020)
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Fernandez Aguilar, X., Mahapatra, M., Begovoeva, M., Kalema-Zikusoka, G., Driciru, M., Ayebazibwe, C., …Kock, R. A. (2020). Peste des Petits Ruminants at the Wildlife–Livestock Interface in the Northern Albertine Rift and Nile Basin, East Africa. Viruses, 12(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/v12030293

In the recent past, peste des petits ruminants (PPR) emerged in East Africa causing outbreaks in small livestock across different countries, with evidences of spillover to wildlife. In order to understand better PPR at the wildlife–livestock interfac... Read More about Peste des Petits Ruminants at the Wildlife–Livestock Interface in the Northern Albertine Rift and Nile Basin, East Africa.

Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic? Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future (2020)
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Kapata, N., Ihekweazu, C., Ntoumi, F., Tajudeen, R., Chanda-Kapata, P., Mwaba, P., …Zumla, A. (2020). Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic? Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.049

Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America (2020)
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Haider, N., Yavlinsky, A., Simons, D., Osman, A. Y., Ntoumi, F., Zumla, A., & Kock, R. A. (2020). Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America. Epidemiology and Infection, 148, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820000424

Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV [SARS-COV-2]) was detected in humans during the last week of December 2019 at Wuhan city in China, and caused 24 554 cases in 27 countries and territories as of 5 February 2020. The objective of this study was to estimate... Read More about Passengers' destinations from China: low risk of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) transmission into Africa and South America.

Paradigm shift in the diagnosis of peste des petits ruminants: scoping review (2020)
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Kinimi, E., Odongo, S., Muyldermans, S., Kock, R. A., & Misinzo, G. (2020). Paradigm shift in the diagnosis of peste des petits ruminants: scoping review. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 62(7), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13028-020-0505-x

Peste des petits ruminants virus causes a highly contagious disease, which poses enormous economic losses in domestic animals and threatens the conservation of wild herbivores. Diagnosis remains a cornerstone to the Peste des petits ruminants Global... Read More about Paradigm shift in the diagnosis of peste des petits ruminants: scoping review.