Title Rinderpest and peste des petits ruminants : virus plagues of large and small ruminants / edited by Thomas Barrett, Paul-Pierre Pastoret and William P. Taylor

Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 341 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits Series Biology of animal infections Biology of animal infections Contents Cover -- Contents -- Rinderpest and Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus Plagues of Large and Small Ruminants -- Dedication -- Contributors -- Series Introduction: Biology of Animal Infections -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of Plates -- Rinderpest: a general introduction -- Rinderpest -- The concept of a virus -- Development of prophylactic measures -- Inoculation-Vaccination against rinderpest -- Virus eradication -- A brief history of peste des petits ruminants -- References -- The morbilliviruses -- Introduction -- Measles virus -- Rinderpest -- Peste des petits ruminants virus -- Canine distemper virus -- Phocine distemper virus -- Cetacean morbilliviruses -- Morbillivirus host range -- Evolutionary relationships -- Control strategies -- References -- Molecular biology of the morbilliviruses -- Introduction -- Genome organization -- Virus promoters -- Transcription -- Replication -- Virus structural proteins -- The N protein -- The P protein -- The M protein -- The F protein -- The H protein -- The L protein -- Virus non-structural protein functions -- The C protein -- The V protein -- The R protein -- Molecular determinants of virulence -- Molecular determinants of host range -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Rinderpest and peste des petits ruminants -- the diseases: clinical signs and pathology -- Introduction -- Rinderpest clinical disease -- Rinderpest pathology -- PPR clinical disease -- PPR pathology -- References -- Rinderpest -- an old and worldwide story: history to c.1902 -- Introduction -- Rinderpest: a terrible disease -- The early recognition of the disease -- The first scientific descriptions of the disease and the first control measures -- The first inoculations in England and The Netherlands -- The 1865-1867 epizootics in England -- History of rinderpest in Asia -- Rinderpest in India -- Rinderpest in Korea -- Rinderpest in Japan -- The great African rinderpest epizootic -- References -- Rinderpest in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Introduction -- Progressive control and eradication -- The freeing of Europe from rinderpest -- The demise of the Asian lineage of rinderpest virus -- West Asia and the Middle East -- The China, Russia and Mongolia focus -- The Georgia-Mongolia-Russia rinderpest enigma -- South-East Asia -- South Asia -- The control of rinderpest in Africa -- North Africa -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- The second African panzootic -- The demise of African lineage 1 rinderpest virus -- African lineage 2 rinderpest virus -- The enigma of mild rinderpest -- Concluding remarks: global eradication by 2010 -- a dream or reality? -- References -- Rinderpest and wildlife -- Introduction -- Rinderpest in African wildlife, 1994-2004 -- The role of wildlife in the maintenance of rinderpest virus in East Africa -- Rinderpest disease in wildlife under epidemic conditions -- Rinderpest in wildlife under endemic conditions -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Diagnosis of rinderpest virus and peste des petits ruminants virus -- Introduction -- Sample collection -- Virus isolation and identification -- Antig Summary Rinderpest and Peste des Petits Ruminants tells the story of how, by the year 2010, scientists are set to globally eradicate one of the great historic plagues that has ravaged human livestock for centuries. Descriptions of the disease in Europe date back to the 4th century and it was regularly re-introduced following wars and other civil unrest until late in the 19th century. It was introduced with devastating effect into Africa towards the end of the 19th century and is now widespread across sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Southern Asia. Its causative agent, rinderpest virus, a morbillivirus very closely related to human measles virus, decimates the cattle population along with those of other susceptible domestic ruminants and many wildlife species wherever it is present. * The history of Rinderpest including the history of vaccines and vaccination * Details other Morbillaviruses * Epidemiology and transmission of Rinderpest Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Ruminants -- Virus diseases Rinderpest -- History Rinderpest. Peste des petits ruminants. Rinderpest Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants Ruminants -- virology MEDICAL -- Veterinary Medicine -- Food Animal. Peste des petits ruminants. Rinderpest. Ruminants -- Virus diseases. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Barrett, T Pastoret, Paul-Pierre Taylor, William P ISBN 0080455891 9780080455891 9780120883851 0120883856

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