An evaluation of the ecological niche of Orf virus (Poxviridae): Challenges of distinguishing broad niches from no niches.

Contagious ecthyma is a skin disease, caused by Orf virus, creating great economic threats to livestock farming worldwide. Zoonotic potential of this disease has gained recent attention owing to the re-emergence of disease in several parts of the world. Increased public health concern emphasizes the...

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Main Authors: Rahul Raveendran Nair, Yoshinori Nakazawa, A Townsend Peterson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293312&type=printable