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SUBMITTER: Zhang K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4026105 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Keshan K Liu Yongjie Y Kong Hanjin H Shang Youjun Y Liu Xiangtao X
Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) 20140418 5
Orf virus, which belongs to the Parapoxvirus genus, induces a zoonotic infectious disease characterized by acute, highly vascularized cutaneous pustular lesions in sheep and goats. A number of Orf outbreaks have been reported in sheep and goats in recent years, but no reports have described an Orf virus strain from humans in China. In this study, we diagnosed Orf virus infection in two people, a mother and son, in the Gansu province of China. The human Orf virus was isolated and its phylogenetic ...[more]