Identification of four goatpox virus outbreaks in Xinjiang of China in 2010

Goat pox is contagious viral diseases of small ruminants and are caused by goat pox virus that belong to genus Capripoxvirus of Poxviridae family. The disease epidemics cause significant economic losses for sheepindustry. This communication highlights clinico-epidemiological observations from the four goat pox outbreaks in Xinjiang China in 2010. In clinical signs, fever, multisystemic nodular lesions, mucopurulent nasal discharges and respiratory symptoms were observed in the affected animals all that are goats but sheep. The morbidity, mortality and case fatality rates were 26.3%, 9.2% and 35%, respectively. pathologic anatomy, PCR techniques and also isolation of virus in Sheep original generation testicular cells were used for the diagnosis of the diseases. As results, 969 bp of DNA band of P32 gene are amplificated from skin, tongue, lung, liver and stomach and similarity cytopathic effect is caused in LT cell by inoculated processed materials of sick sample and Attenuated vaccian of goatpoxvirus. It concluded that the four outbreaks are affected by goatpox virus.