ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The research was supported by internal funds from NVRI (Nigeria) and CIRAD (France), by a grant (SI2.756606) from the European Commission Directorate General for Health and Food Safety awarded to the European Union Reference Laboratory for Peste des Petits Ruminants (EURL-PPR), and by a grant (FOOD/2019/410-957) from the European Union for the project “EU support to Livestock Disease Surveillance Knowledge Integration” (LIDISKI).