| contagious ecthyma, rangiferine brucellosis, and lungworm infection in a muskox ( ovibos moschatus ) from the canadian arctic, 2014. | an adult male muskox ( ovibos moschatus ), harvested on 26 august 2014 on victoria island, nunavut, in the canadian arctic, had proliferative dermatitis on the muzzle and fetlocks suggestive of contagious ecthyma or orf (parapoxvirus). histopathologic features of the lesions were consistent with this diagnosis. orf virus dna, phylogenetically similar to an isolate from a captive muskox of the minnesota zoo, us, was detected in the lesions by pcr using parapoxvirus primers. additionally, there wa ... | 2016 | 27285415 |