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ArticleViruses2020

Peste des Petits Ruminants at the Wildlife-Livestock Interface in the Northern Albertine Rift and Nile Basin, East Africa.

Xavier Fernandez Aguilar, Mana Mahapatra, Mattia Begovoeva, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Margaret Driciru, Chrisostom Ayebazibwe, David Solomon Adwok, Michael Kock, Jean-Paul Kabemba Lukusa, Jesus Muro and 11 more

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Article in Viruses, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors at 8 institutions in 9 countries.

Xavier Fernandez AguilarDepartment of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London NW1 0TU, UK, mattia.begovoeva@edu.unito.it (M.B.).ORCID 0000-0002-4939-6048
Mana MahapatraThe Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK, mana.mahapatra@pirbright.ac.uk (M.M.).ORCID 0000-0002-3977-1465
Mattia BegovoevaDepartment of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London NW1 0TU, UK, mattia.begovoeva@edu.unito.it (M.B.).ORCID 0000-0002-5626-6495
Gladys Kalema-ZikusokaConservation Through Public Health, Plot 3 Mapera Lane, Uring Crescent, P.O. Box 75298 Entebbe, Uganda.
Margaret DriciruUganda Wildlife Authority (UWA), Plot 7 Kira Road, P.O. Box 3530 Kampala, Uganda.
Chrisostom AyebazibweNADDEC Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries, P.O. Box 102 Entebbe, Uganda.
David Solomon AdwokCentral Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories, Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries, P.O. Box 126 Juba, South Sudan.
Michael KockConsultant Field Veterinary Programme, Formerly: Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10460, USA.
Jean-Paul Kabemba LukusaRegional Gorilla Conservation Employees Health Program, MGVP Inc., Goma 00243, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Jesus MuroDaktari, La Solana 35, AD700 Escaldes, Andorra.
Ignasi MarcoServei d'Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge (Sefas) and Wildlife Conservation Medicine Research Group (WildCoM), Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Andreu Colom-CadenaServei d'Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge (Sefas) and Wildlife Conservation Medicine Research Group (WildCoM), Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Johan EspunyesServei d'Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge (Sefas) and Wildlife Conservation Medicine Research Group (WildCoM), Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8692-1593
Natascha MeunierDepartment of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London NW1 0TU, UK, mattia.begovoeva@edu.unito.it (M.B.).
Oscar CabezónServei d'Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge (Sefas) and Wildlife Conservation Medicine Research Group (WildCoM), Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Alexandre CaronCIRAD, UMR ASTRE, F-34398 Montpellier, France.ORCID 0000-0002-5213-3273
Arnaud BatailleCIRAD, UMR ASTRE, F-34398 Montpellier, France.ORCID 0000-0002-3508-2144
Genevieve LibeauCIRAD, UMR ASTRE, F-34398 Montpellier, France.
Krupali ParekhThe Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK, mana.mahapatra@pirbright.ac.uk (M.M.).
Satya ParidaThe Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK, mana.mahapatra@pirbright.ac.uk (M.M.).ORCID 0000-0001-8253-9461
Richard KockDepartment of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London NW1 0TU, UK, mattia.begovoeva@edu.unito.it (M.B.).ORCID 0000-0002-6561-3209
Royal Veterinary College · GBUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ESCentre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement · FRThe Pirbright Institute · GBMinistry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries · UGUganda Wildlife Authority · UGUniversity of Andorra · ADWildlife Conservation Society · US

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L013592/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L013657/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007031Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007034Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007036Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/I/00007037
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 interface, we investigated patterns of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) exposure, disease outbreaks, and viral sequences in the northern Albertine Rift. PPRV antibodies indicated a widespread exposure in apparently healthy wildlife from South Sudan (2013) and Uganda (2015, 2017). African buffaloes and Uganda kobs <1-year-old from Queen Elizabeth National Park (2015) had antibodies against PPRV N-antigen and local serosurvey captured a subsequent spread of PPRV in livestock. Outbreaks with PPR-like syndrome in sheep and goats were recorded around the Greater Virunga Landscape in Kasese (2016), Kisoro and Kabale (2017) from western Uganda, and in North Kivu (2017) from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This landscape would not be considered typical for PPR persistence as it is a mixed forest-savannah ecosystem with mostly sedentary livestock. PPRV sequences from DRC (2017) were identical to strains from Burundi (2018) and confirmed a transboundary spread of PPRV. Our results indicate an epidemiological linkage between epizootic cycles in livestock and exposure in wildlife, denoting the importance of PPR surveillance on wild artiodactyls for both conservation and eradication programs.

Indexed as

Peste-des-petits-ruminants virusAfrica, EasternAnimalsAnimals, WildAntibodies, ViralDisease OutbreaksEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayFemaleGeography, MedicalGoatsLivestockMalePeste-des-Petits-RuminantsSeroepidemiologic StudiesSheepAntibodies, ViralDemocratic Republic of the Congoepidemiologyhost rangepeste des petits ruminantsPPRSouth Sudantransboundary emerging diseasesUgandawildlife

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PMID32156067
PMCPMC7150925
OpenAlexW3009831701

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