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Orf virus (ORFV) causes contagious ecthyma (CE), a highly transmissible, zoonotic disease of small ruminants. CE most commonly affects lambs and unvaccinated sheep. This work reports epidemiologic, clinicopathologic, and virologic… Click to show full abstract
Orf virus (ORFV) causes contagious ecthyma (CE), a highly transmissible, zoonotic disease of small ruminants. CE most commonly affects lambs and unvaccinated sheep. This work reports epidemiologic, clinicopathologic, and virologic findings in a CE outbreak in a vaccinated sheep flock in Uruguay and failure to detect ORFV in a commercial vaccine.
Keywords:
orf virus;
sheep flock;
contagious ecthyma;
vaccinated sheep;
flock uruguay
Journal Title: Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
Year Published: 2019
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Journal Title: Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
Year Published: 2019
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