Original scientific paper

Observations on natural and experimental infection of sheep and goats with a virulent field Capripoxvirus with high affinity to goats.

Eltayb Abu-Elzein ; College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Resources, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
Fahdel Housawi ; College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Resources, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
Omar Ramadan ; College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Resources, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Gameel ; College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Resources, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
Adel Al-Afaleq ; College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Resources, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
Othman Al-Gundi ; College of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Resources, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

A virulent field Capripoxvirus with high affinity to goats was isolated for the first time in Saudi Arabia from a natural disease involving a mixed herd of local breeds of sheep and goats. Observations on both the natural disease and the experimental studies indicated its host preference to goats. The results were discussed in relation to concerns regarding the use of the current Romanian strain of sheeppox vaccine in the country. The epidemiology of Capripoxvirus infection in Saudi Arabia was discussed.

Keywords

virulent Capripoxvirus; affinity to goats; epidemiology; Saudi Arabia

Hrčak ID:

74726

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/74726

Publication date:

22.6.2003.

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