Table 1.
Summary of the characteristics of confirmed peste des petits ruminants (PPR) outbreaks and diagnostic test results in Ngorongoro District, June–July 2015.
| Ward | Flock No. | Local Disease Name (Maa Language) | Species/Age Groups Affected | Clinical Signs | Flock Mortality (%) | Flock Morbidity † (%) | Diagnostic Test Results Number Positive (Number Tested) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyrexia | Lacrimation | Nasal Discharge | Sneezing | Coughing | Dyspnoea | Peri-Oral Lesions | Mouth Lesions | Salivation | Diarrhoea | PPRV-RDT | PPRV RT-qPCR | PPRV cELISA | BTV RT-qPCR | Capripox qPCR | |||||||
| Olorien-Magaiduru | 1 | olodua | sheep and goats, all ages | X | X | X | X | X | - | X | X | - | X | 2.2 | 66.6 | 2 (3) | 4 (7) | 1 (4) | 1 (4) | 0 (4) | TANZANIAGoat3/2015, TANZANIAGoat4/2015 |
| 3 | olkipiei | sheep and goats, all ages | X | X | X | - | X | - | - | X | - | X | 1.5 | 60.0 | 2 (3) | 3 (3) | 2 (2) | -- | -- | TANZANIAGoat10/2015, TANZANIAGoat11/2015 | |
| 4 | olodua | goats | - | - | X | - | - | - | X | - | - | X | 3.0 | 5.5 | 1 (1) | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 9 | oloirobi | sheep and goats (more sheep affected than goats) | X | - | X | X | X | - | X | X | X | X | 9.1 | 15.9 | 0 (3) | 2 (6) | 1 (3) | 1 (1) | 0 (1) | ||
| Soitsambu and Ololosokwan | 5 | olodua | adult sheep | - | - | X | - | - | X | X | X | X | - | 0.2 | 4.3 | 1 (2) | 2 (2) | 1 (2) | -- | -- | TANZANIASheep14/2015 |
| 6 | olodua or olkipiei | sheep and goats, all ages | X | X | X | - | - | X | X | - | X | X | 2.0 | 14.0 | 1 (1) | 2 (2) | 1 (1) | 0 (1) | 0 (1) | TANZANIASheep15/2015 | |
| 17 | none | sheep and goats | - | X | X | - | - | - | X | X | X | - | NA | NA | -- | 2 (3) | 1 (2) | -- | -- | ||
| Olbalbal | 19 | olkipiei | Goats only, mainly young | X | - | X | - | - | X | X | X | - | X | 25.0 | 31.3 | 0 (2) | 1 (5) | 0 (2) | 0 (1) | 0 (1) | |
| Endulen | 26 | NA | - | - | X | - | - | - | - | X | - | X | NA | NA | -- | 1 (3) | 1 (3) | -- | -- | ||
| Kakesio | 29 | enkorotik | - | X | X | - | - | - | - | X | - | X | 4.0 | 4.6 | 1 (2) | 1 (2) | 3 (5) | -- | -- | ||
| Total number positive (total number tested) | 8 (17) | 18 (33) | 11 (24) | 2 (7) | 0 (7) | ||||||||||||||||
† Includes sick and dead. Abbreviations: NA = not available, PPRV = peste des petits ruminants virus, BTV = bluetongue virus, RDT = rapid detection test, RT-qPCR = real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, qPCR = real-time polymerase chain reaction, and cELISA = competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. X = present, - = not present; -- = not tested. Maa language disease names: enkorotik means diarrhoea, olkipiei means “lung”, a term used for disease of the lungs, olodua means “bile” or “gall bladder”, a term used for rinderpest in cattle, and oloirobi means “fever”.