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Orange Code:49441
Paperback:389 pages
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1. Rinderpest: a general introduction2. The morbilliviruses3. Molecular biology of the morbilliviruses4. Rinderpest and peste des petits ruminants – the diseases: clinical signs and pathology5. Rinderpest – an old and worldwide story: history to c.19026. Rinderpest in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries7. Rinderpest and wildlife8. Diagnosis of rinderpest virus and peste des petits ruminants virus9. Old prophylactic methods10. Immunology of rinderpest – an immunosuppression but a lifelong vaccine protection11. History of vaccines and vaccination12. New generation vaccines against rinderpest and peste des petits ruminants13. Use of rinderpest vaccine in international programmes for the control and eradication of rinderpest14. Strategy for measles eradication15. Towards the global eradication of rinderpest16. Conclusions17. Biographical notes on key players in rinderpest study and control
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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
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