| Literature DB >> 17682935 |
Kun-Wei Chan1, Jen-Wei Lin, Shu-Hwae Lee, Chih-Jung Liao, Meng-Chun Tsai, Wei-Li Hsu, Min-Liang Wong, Hung-Chang Shih.
Abstract
An outbreak of contagious ecthyma in goats in central Taiwan was investigated. The disease was diagnosed by physical and histopathologic examinations, and the etiology of the disease was identified as orf virus by electron microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequence of major envelope protein (B2L) gene. The entire protein-coding region of B2L gene were cloned and sequenced. Phylogenetic analysis of B2L amino acid sequences showed that the orf virus identified in this outbreak was closer to the Indian ORFV-Mukteswar 59/05 isolate. This is the first report on the molecular characterization of orf virus in Taiwan.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17682935 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-007-0144-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Virus Genes ISSN: 0920-8569 Impact factor: 2.198