A transmission chain from sheep to sheep and human of zoonotic orf virus during the mpox epidemic

Dan Yu; Kaihu Yao; Danyu Deng; Ying Liu; Rina Wu; Yanfei Li; Jinling Gao; Xinyu Wang; Libing Fu; Yonghong Yang; Qiri Mu; Lin Ma

doi:10.1080/22221751.2023.2233636

A transmission chain from sheep to sheep and human of zoonotic orf virus during the mpox epidemic

Emerg Microbes Infect. 2023 Dec;12(2):2233636. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2023.2233636.

Authors

Dan Yu¹, Kaihu Yao¹, Danyu Deng², Ying Liu³, Rina Wu⁴, Yanfei Li⁵, Jinling Gao⁶, Xinyu Wang¹, Libing Fu⁷, Yonghong Yang¹, Qiri Mu⁴, Lin Ma³

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Dermatology, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Key Laboratory of Major Diseases in Children, Ministry of Education, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
² The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Comprehensive Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hohhot, People's Republic of China.
³ Department of Dermatology, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, International Mongolian Hospital of Inner Mongolia, Hohhot, People's Republic of China.
⁵ Department of Dermatology, The First Hospital of Hohhot, Hohhot, People's Republic of China.
⁶ Department of Dermatology, Dengkou County People's Hospital, Bayannur, People's Republic of China.
⁷ Department of Pathology, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, People's Republic of China.

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Animals
Epidemics* / veterinary
Humans
Mpox (monkeypox)* / epidemiology
Orf virus* / genetics
Sheep
Zoonoses / epidemiology

Grants and funding

This work was supported by The Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China [grant number 2021ZD15], National Key Research and Development Program of China [grant number 2022YFC2504800] and a grant from Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality [grant number 7232052].