localized outbreak of rinderpest in Egyptian buffaloes in 1990

ABSTRACT

Rinderpest virus was isolated frm an outbreak affecting group of buffaloes in the farm of faculty of Vet. Med. Giza Egypt. The clinical signs, the P.M. lesions and epizootological study were recorded. The specific viral antigen could be detected in lymph nodes of the freshly dead animals by using agar gel precipitation test. The viral agent was isolated in vero cells and could be demonstrated in infected T.C. cells with the immunofluorscence technique and finally seroconversion of the infected buffaloes was applied to confirm isolation of the virus