ArticleTransboundary and emerging diseases2021
Persistence of the historical lineage I of West Africa against the ongoing spread of the Asian lineage of peste des petits ruminants virus.
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- Epidemiological and Operational Constraints on the Feasibility of Peste des Petits Ruminants Eradication Target by 2030: Necessity for a New Pragmatic Road Map.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2026Review
- Global evolutionary dynamics of peste des petits ruminants virus reveals geographic lineage structuring and clade-defining mutational signatures.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Molecular characterization of peste des petits ruminants virus in small ruminants from the Savannah District, Northern Ivory Coast.Journal of advanced veterinary and animal research · 2026Article
- Near-Whole-Genome Sequencing of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Virus Lineage IV From the Savannah District, Northern Côte d'Ivoire in 2023.Veterinary medicine international · 2026Article
- How fast can PPRV spread? Analyzing the results of an experimental PPRV infection of goats equipped with Ultra-Wideband sensors.PloS one · 2026Article
- Peste des petits ruminants virus virulence is associated with an early inflammatory profile in the tonsils and cell cycle arrest in lymphoid tissue.Microbiology spectrum · 2025Article
- A phosphoprotein gene RT-qPCR assay for detecting all lineages of peste des petits ruminants virus.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Recapitulation of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Prevalence in Small Ruminant Populations of Pakistan from 2004 to 2023: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Veterinary sciences · 2024Review
- First Report of the Emergence of Peste des Petits Ruminants Lineage IV Virus in Senegal.Viruses · 2024Article
- Comparative evolutionary analyses of peste des petits ruminants virus genetic lineages.Virus evolution · 2024Article
- Peste Des Petits Ruminants in the Middle East: Epidemiological Situation and Status of Control and Eradication Activities after the First Phase of the PPR Global Eradication Program (2017-2021).Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Persistence of the historical lineage I of West Africa against the ongoing spread of the Asian lineage of peste des petits ruminants virus.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2021Article
- Ongoing Assessment of the Molecular Evolution of Peste Des Petits Ruminants Virus Continues to Question Viral Origins.Viruses · 2021Article
- Molecular epidemiology of peste des petits ruminants virus emergence in critically endangered Mongolian saiga antelope and other wild ungulates.Virus evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious disease of small ruminants. The causal agent, PPR virus (PPRV), is classified into four genetically distinct lineages. Lineage IV, originally from Asia, has shown a unique capacity to spread across Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Recent studies have reported its presence in two West African countries: Nigeria and Niger. Animals are frequently exchanged between Mali and Niger, which could allow the virus to enter and progress in Mali and to other West African countries. Here, PPRV samples were collected from sick goats between 2014 and 2017 in both Mali and in Senegal, on the border with Mali. Partial PPRV nucleoprotein gene was sequenced to identify the genetic lineage of the strains. Our results showed that lineage IV was present in south-eastern Mali in 2017. This is currently the furthest West the lineage has been detected in West Africa. Surprisingly, we identified the persistence at least until 2014 of the supposedly extinct lineage I in two regions of Mali, Segou and Sikasso. Most PPRV sequences obtained in this study belonged to lineage II, which is dominant in West Africa. Phylogenetic analyses showed a close relationship between sequences obtained at the border between Senegal and Mali, supporting the hypothesis of an important movement of the virus between the two countries. Understanding the movement of animals between these countries, where the livestock trade is not fully controlled, is very important in the design of efficient control strategies to combat this devastating disease.
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