Peste Des Petits Ruminants - A Permanent Burden on the Development of Small Ruminant in Ivory-Coast

PPR is a major constraint of the development of small ruminants in areas where it is endemic such as Ivory-Coast. On the period 2009-2012, we conducted a PPR survey in four selected regions (Agboville, Bongouanou, Dabou and Yamoussokro). Based on reports from the field veterinary technicians we investigated fourteen outbreaks of PPR causing estimated mortality cases of 1300 goat's ad 450 sheep. Appropriate tissue and swabs samples were collected along with 746 randomly collected serum samples. Using the N-cELISA technique, an overall seroprevalence of 35.6% (266/746) was found ranging from 12.9% in Yamoussokro region to 56.7% in Bongouanou region with a yearly seroprevalence varying from 25.2% in 2012 to 40.7% in 2010. All the tissue and swabs samples were positive by RTPCR and the PPR virus was isolated from eight tissue samples on the monkey CV1 cell line expressing sheep-goat SLAM protein. These strains felt into PPRV lineage II.