Paradigm shift in the diagnosis of peste des petits ruminants: scoping review

• Published in: Acta veterinaria scandinavica Vol. 62; no. 1; p. 7
• Main Authors: Kinimi, Edson, Odongo, Steven, Muyldermans, Serge, Kock, Richard, Misinzo, Gerald
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 29.01.2020; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: agar; Animals; Anopheles; Beef cattle; Communicable diseases; counterimmunoelectrophoresis; Diagnosis; diagnostic techniques; Diagnostics; Disease; disease diagnosis; Diseases; Domestic animals; Ecosystems; Electrophoresis; enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; Enzymes; Epidemics; Epidemiology; financial economics; gels; Herbivores; immunoaffinity chromatography; Immunodiffusion; Immunoelectrophoresis; Immunoglobulins; Immunoprecipitation; Infections; Innovations; Luciferase; Medical tests; Nanobodies; Nanopore; Peste des petits ruminants; Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants - diagnosis; Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants - prevention & control; Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants - virology; Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus; Polymerase chain reaction; Population; prototypes; Recombinase; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; Reverse transcription; Review; Ruminants - virology; Setting (Literature); Sheep; Small ruminant morbillivirus; Technology; Time; Vaccines; Viruses; wild animals; Wildlife; Wildlife conservation; United Kingdom; United States > US; Asia; Africa; Nanopore; Diagnostics; Peste des petits ruminants; Nanobodies

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 Control and Eradication Strategy, an initiative of...