Vaccines against peste des petits ruminants virus

Expert Review of Vaccines

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 785-796

  Sen, Arnab ^a   Saravanan, Paramasivam ^a,b   Balamurugan, Vinayagamurthy ^c   Rajak, Kaushal Kishor ^a   Sudhakar, Shashi Bhushan ^a   Bhanuprakash, Veerakyathappa ^a   Parida, Satya ^b   Singh, Raj Kumar ^d  

^a INDIAN VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^c ICAR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VETERINARY EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DISEASE INFORMATICS   (India)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON EQUINES   (India)

Author keywords

DIVA; live attenuated vaccine; peste des petits ruminants; PPR marker vaccine; thermostable vaccine

Indexed keywords

EDIBLE VACCINE; GOATPOX VACCINE; LIVE VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; PESTE DES PETITS RUMINANTS VACCINE; RECOMBINANT MARKER VACCINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT VACCINE; RNA VACCINE; SHEEPPOX VACCINE; SUBUNIT VACCINE; TCRP VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINIA VACCINE; VIRUS VACCINE;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; AFRICA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFECTION CONTROL; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEASLES VIRUS; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PESTE DES PETITS RUMINANTS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; THERMOSTABILITY; VIRION; VIRULENCE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ZOOLOGY;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ASIA; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; PESTE-DES-PETITS-RUMINANTS; PESTE-DES-PETITS-RUMINANTS VIRUS; REFRIGERATION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TEMPERATURE; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VACCINES, MARKER; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 77954684077     PISSN: 14760584     EISSN: 17448395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erv.10.74     Document Type: Review

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