Abstract
Severe Persistent Case of Contagious Ecthyma (Orf) in Goats
Highlights
Contagious ecthyma (Orf ) virus is a member of the genus parapoxvirus in the family of Poxviridae (Murphy et al, 2012; Nadeem et al, 2010)
It is commonly called “Orf ” which is an acute, contagious, debilitating and important zoonotic skin disease that affects domestic and wild ruminants especially sheep and goat. It is known as contagious ecthyma, contagious pustular dermatitis (CPD), sore mouth and scabby mouth (CDC, 2015; Nandi et al, 2011), a disease of economic significant among small ru
In the face of outbreaks of contagious ecthyma, morbidity can be as high as 100%, whilst mortality is usually less than 1% but increase to 20% – 50% as a result of secondary bacterial complications, stress, immunosuppression or concomitant disease and can exceed up to 90% in the case of ‘malignant Orf ’ (Hosamani et al, 2009; Scagliarini et al, 2006)
Summary
Contagious ecthyma (Orf ) virus is a member of the genus parapoxvirus in the family of Poxviridae (Murphy et al, 2012; Nadeem et al, 2010). Severe persistent case of contagious ecthyma (Orf ) in goats.
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