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Volume 15, Number 2—February 2009

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Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus in Tibet, China

Zhiliang Wang1Comments to Author , Jingyue Bao1, Xiaodong Wu1, Yutian Liu1, Lin Li, Chunju Liu, Longciren Suo, Zhonglun Xie, Wenji Zhao, Wei Zhang, Nan Yang, Jinming Li, Shushuang WangComments to Author , and Junwei WangComments to Author 
Author affiliations: China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China (Z. Wang, J. Bao, X. Wu, Y. Liu, L. Li, C. Liu, Z. Xie, W. Zhao, W. Zhang, N. Yang, J. Li, S. Wang, J. Wang); Tibet Center for Animal Disease Control, Lhasa, Tibet, People’s Republic of China (L. Suo)

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Table 1

PPRV antibody in animals sampled in Tibet, China, 2007*

Region County No. samples No. (%) PPRV positive
Ngari
 Gerze 131 59 (45.0)
Ge'gyai 314 90 (28.7)
Rutog 209 122 (58.4)
Zada 64 0
Gar 50 0
Bulang
 68
 0
Nyingchi
 Zayu
 60
 0
Nagqu
 Nyima
 60
 0
Shigatse
 Nyalam 120 0
Yadong 66 0
Zhongba
 120
 0
Shannan
 Cona 135 0
Lhozhag
 139
 0
Total 1,536 271 (17.6)

*PPRV, peste des petits ruminants virus.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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