Live attenuated Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) vaccine

Scientists involved : Dr.K.S.Palaniswami, Dr.A.Thangavelu, Dr.A.Koteeswaran,  Dr.K.Saravanabava and Dr.K.Nachimuthu

Product Technology : Live PPR virus adapted and attenuated in vero cells by serial passage for 75 times. 

Product Presentation 

Vaccine : Freeze dried in a glass vial (50 doses) 
Diluent : 50 ml in a polypropylene bottle.

Product Utility    

PPR is an acute, highly contagious and fatal rinderpest like disease of small ruminants and in unprotected animals the mortality may reach 60-70%. PPR virus first reported in India in 1987 from an outbreak in Tamil Nadu and since then the disease was reported from all over the country. The use of rinderpest vaccine to protect small ruminants against PPR is contraindicated because its use induces antibodies to rinderpest, which compromises sero-surveillance for rinderpest. Hence the present vaccine was developed for control of PPR in sheep and goats. It is used for prophylatic vaccination against PPR in sheep and goats.

For further details contact

Department of Microbiology,
Madras Veterinary College, TANUVAS,
Chennai – 600 007.