Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus
5 Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus Muhammad Munir The Pirbright Institute, Compton Laboratory, Compton, UK 5.1 Introduction Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly contagious, fatal and economically important…
Snakehead Rhabdovirus
22 Snakehead Rhabdovirus Kristin A. Gabor, Con Sullivan and Carol H. Kim University of Maine, Orono, USA 22.1 Introduction and Overview The focus of this chapter is snakehead rhabdovirus (SHRV),…
Rinderpest Virus
6 Rinderpest Virus Anke Brüning-Richardson1 and Ashley C. Banyard2 1St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK; 2Animal Healthand Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, UK 6.1 Introduction Rinderpest (from the German ‘cattle plague’)…
Pneumonia Virus of Mice
19 Pneumonia Virus of Mice Cynthia A. Bonville,1Manika Suryadevara,1 Helene F. Rosenberg2 and Joseph B. Domachowske1 1Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, USA; 2National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA 19.1 Historical Perspective…
Morbilliviruses in Sea Mammals
17 Morbilliviruses in Sea Mammals Sara Soto and Mariano Domingo Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 17.1 Introduction In the last three decades new morbilliviruses have emerged as a serious…
Rabies Virus
13 Rabies Virus Clement W. Gnanadurai,1 David C. Lyon,2Alan C. Jackson3 and Zhen F. Fu1,4 1University of Georgia, Athens, USA; 2University of California, Irvine, USA; 3University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada;…
Porcine Rubulavirus (PoRV-LPMV)
9 Porcine Rubulavirus (PoRV-LPMV) Mikael Berg and Jorge Moreno-López Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden 9.1 Historical Aspects and General Background In the early 1980s, a seemingly new disease…
Bovine Parainfluenza Virus 3
7 Bovine Parainfluenza Virus 3 Subbiah Elankumaran Virginia-Maryland Regional College of VeterinaryMedicine, Blacksburg, USA 7.1 History and Importance Bovine parainfluenza virus 3 (BPIV-3) was first isolated in the USA from…
