In goats and sheep, orf virus causes contagious ecthyma. Histopathological evaluation of the submitted oral skin samples showed epidermal hyperplastic epithelium and ulceration that formed ...

These viruses cause, as in this case, milker‘s nodules transmitted by cows (paravaccinia virus) and orf/ecthyma contagiosum (orf virus) transmitted by sheep and goats. Both diseases follow a ...