Isolation of peste des petits ruminants virus from the Sudan.

Based on clinical signs, the presence of a rinderpest related antigen and the ability of rinderpest immune serum to prevent virus isolation, rinderpest was diagnosed in two outbreaks in goats in central Sudan during 1971 and 1972. Two viruses isolated from these goats have been re-examined both serologically and by the inoculation of experimental cattle, sheep and goats. Each is now considered to represent the virus of peste des petits ruminants, thereby extending the geographical range of this agent.