Systematic Veterinary Virology

OIE PATHWAY

• The OIE has developed a set of Recommended Standards for Epidemiological Surveillance for Rinderpest (the ‘OIE Pathway’) that governs the actions of Member Countries wishing to demonstrate that they have achieved freedom from infection.
• To this end, both competition and indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays are available that will determine the presence of rinderpest antibodies in animals that have been infected with field virus or with rinderpest vaccine.