Abstract
Gross and Microscopic Study of Pneumonic Lungs, Liver and Intestine from Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Suspected Dead Goat in Sylhet Region of Bangladesh
Highlights
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious and economically important viral disease of domestic and wild small ruminants which is caused by the genus morbillivirus under the family Paramyxoviridae (Bailey et al 2005)
In Bangladesh, PPR is an exotic disease of goats (Debnath, 1995) which was first described in Bangladesh by FAO expert team in 1993 (Dhar et al, 2002) and the causal agent of the disease was identified as PPR virus by World Reference laboratory in the U.K (Dhar et al, 2002)
We collected four dead goats that were supposedly died of PPR viral infection at different days in January 2014, with the clinical features which were used to make a tentative diagnosis to put to the hospital records, conducted gross examination and histopathological analysis of affected organs and found the lesions identical to the PPR
Summary
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious and economically important viral disease of domestic and wild small ruminants which is caused by the genus morbillivirus under the family Paramyxoviridae (Bailey et al 2005). While in Bangladesh, the estimated economic loss in 2011 due to PPR was reported as Tk 10, 16434 ($ 14520.49) (Islam et al, 2011) Though, this disease is considered as one of the hindrance of poverty alleviation program in African and Asian poor countries since sheep and goat rearing contributes significantly in the livelihood of rural poor families (Diallo, 2006), very few researches. We collected four dead goats that were supposedly died of PPR viral infection at different days in January 2014, with the clinical features which were used to make a tentative diagnosis to put to the hospital records, conducted gross examination and histopathological analysis of affected organs and found the lesions identical to the PPR
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