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A wild muskox (Ovibos moschatus) with dermatitis typical of contagious ecthyma had secondary bacterial septicemia with Corynebacterium freneyi that included laminitis, hepatitis, and suppurative encephalitis. This case supports the association between orf virus infection and fatal secondary infections, which may have contributed to population declines on Victoria Island, Canada.
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Infecções por Corynebacterium/veterinária , Corynebacterium/isolamento & purificação , Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Ruminantes/microbiologia , Sepse/veterinária , Animais , Animais Selvagens , Infecções por Corynebacterium/epidemiologia , Infecções por Corynebacterium/patologia , Masculino , Sepse/microbiologiaRESUMO
Orf virus (Parapoxvirus ovis, ORFV) is a dermatotropic virus causing pustular dermatitis in small ruminants and humans. We analysed isolated human primary keratinocytes (KC) and dermal fibroblasts (FB) for cell death and virus replication by infection with a patient-derived ORFV isolate. ORFV infection was associated with rapid induction of cell death in KC allowing for considerable virus removal. Upon infection with ORFV, KC and FB harboured intracytoplasmic ORFV and showed viral protein presence; however, missing virus spread indicated an abortive infection. Upon ORFV exposure, KC but not FB secreted the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin (IL)-6. ORFV infection enhanced the frequency of KC expressing intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1 which was independent of IL-6. Interestingly, ORFV inhibited ICAM-1 up-regulation on infected but not on non-infected KC. Even interferon-γ, a potent inducer of ICAM-1, up-regulated ICAM-1 only on non-infected KC. Transfer of ORFV-free supernatant from infected to non-infected KC induced ICAM-1 on non-infected KC pointing to the involvement of soluble mediator(s). Similarly as in KC, in FB interference with ICAM-1 up-regulation by ORFV infection was also observed. In conclusion, we shed light on epidermal and dermal defense mechanisms to ORFV infection and point to a novel ICAM-1-related immune evasion mechanism of ORFV in human skin.
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Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Fibroblastos/virologia , Molécula 1 de Adesão Intercelular/metabolismo , Queratinócitos/virologia , Vírus do Orf , Morte Celular , Humanos , Sistema Imunitário , Inflamação , Interferon gama/metabolismo , Interleucina-6/metabolismo , Microscopia de Contraste de Fase , Pele/citologia , Regulação para Cima , Replicação ViralRESUMO
The case of a 6-year-old boy with multiple, target-shaped lesions and a crusted nodule on his right index finger is presented. Based on clinical findings and the patient's recent contact with sheep and goats, a diagnosis of orf disease associated with erythema multiforme was suspected. Microscopy studies confirmed the presence of parapoxvirus in the primary lesion. Orf-induced erythema multiforme is a rare complication of orf in children, possibly related to the presence of orf virus DNA in erythema multiforme lesions.
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Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Eritema Multiforme/etiologia , Vírus do Orf/isolamento & purificação , Criança , Ectima Contagioso/diagnóstico , Eritema Multiforme/diagnóstico , Humanos , Masculino , Remissão Espontânea , Pele/patologiaRESUMO
Orf is a DNA parapoxvirus transmitted to humans by contact with infected goats and sheep. Many complications have been reported after orf infection, including erythema multiforme. A few cases of autoimmune bullous dermatosis complicating orf disease have been reported to date. They are usually characterized by tense blister eruptions with or without mucosal involvement; linear deposition of C3, IgG and/or IgA along the basement membrane; and negativity of indirect immunofluorescence analysis and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (performed in four of 11 reported cases). These analyses have targeted antigens of bullous pemphigoid, mucous membrane pemphigoid or epidermolysis bullosa acquisita, except one case of mucosal pemphigoid with antilaminin-332 antibodies. We describe the case of a patient who presented with an ulceration on his finger 10 days after direct contact with a lamb during Eid al-Adha. Four weeks later he developed a severe tense blistering eruption associated with mucous membrane erosions. Indirect immunofluorescence analysis using the patient's serum revealed circulating antibasement membrane IgG that bound the dermal side of salt-split skin. ELISA was positive for recombinant immunodominant NC1 domain of type VII collagen. We finally diagnosed epidermolysis bullosa acquisita complicating probable human orf infection.
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Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Epidermólise Bolhosa Adquirida/complicações , Adulto , Animais , Dedos , Manipulação de Alimentos , Humanos , Islamismo , Masculino , OvinosRESUMO
Ecthyma contagiosum, or Orf, is a specific infection of small ruminants accidentally reaching humans. Few cases have been reported in the literature to date. We report here a case of ecthyma contagiosum occurred in a 9-year-old girl after contact with a flock of ecthyma sheep. This Orf was then complicated by superinfection and then by erythema multiforme. Orf is often underdiagnosed, probably because of small ruminant breeders' knowledge of this disease and its benignity in humans. It is caused by a very resistant Parapoxvirus in the environment. The diagnosis is clinical and anamnestic. Orf is therefore a benign pathology, the course of which is spontaneously favorable outside any specific treatment. However, it is important to prevent certain complications such as superinfections with appropriate local care. Other complications cannot be prevented and require appropriate care.
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Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Eritema Multiforme/etiologia , Animais , Criança , Feminino , Humanos , OvinosRESUMO
Viruses are considered intracellular obligates with a nucleic acid RNA or DNA. They have the ability to encode proteins involved in viral replication and production of the protective coat within the host cells but require host cell ribosomes and mitochondria for translation. The members of the families Herpesviridae, Poxviridae, Papovaviridae, and Picornaviridae are the most commonly known agents for cutaneous viral diseases, but other virus families, such as Adenoviridae, Togaviridae, Parvoviridae, Paramyxoviridae, Flaviviridae, and Hepadnaviridae, can also infect the skin. Herpetic whitlow should be considered under the title of special viral infections of the acral region, where surgical incision is not recommended; along with verruca plantaris with its resistance to treatment and the search for a new group of treatments, including human papillomavirus vaccines; HIV with maculopapular eruptions and palmoplantar desquamation; orf and milker's nodule with its nodular lesions; papular-purpuric gloves and socks syndrome with its typical clinical presentation; necrolytic acral erythema with its relationship with zinc; and hand, foot, and mouth disease with its characteristics of causing infection with its strains, with high risk for complication.
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Dermatoses do Pé/virologia , Dermatoses da Mão/virologia , Infecções por Herpesviridae/complicações , Verrugas/complicações , Animais , Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Infecções por Flaviviridae/complicações , Infecções por HIV/complicações , Doença de Mão, Pé e Boca/complicações , Humanos , Molusco Contagioso/complicações , Infecções por Parvoviridae/complicações , OvinosAssuntos
Aciclovir/administração & dosagem , Ectima Contagioso/tratamento farmacológico , Granuloma Piogênico/tratamento farmacológico , Hospedeiro Imunocomprometido , Interferon-alfa/administração & dosagem , Administração Oral , Adulto , Antivirais/administração & dosagem , Biópsia , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Quimioterapia Combinada , Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Ectima Contagioso/imunologia , Granuloma Piogênico/complicações , Granuloma Piogênico/imunologia , Humanos , Injeções Intralesionais , Interferon alfa-2 , Queratinócitos/ultraestrutura , Masculino , Microscopia Eletrônica de Transmissão , Proteínas Recombinantes/administração & dosagem , Pele/patologiaRESUMO
Orf virus (ORFV), a member of parapoxvirus, is an enveloped virus with genome of double-stranded DNA. ORFV causes contagious pustular dermatitis or contagious ecthyma in sheep and goats worldwide. In general, detection of viral DNA and observing ORFV virion in tissues of afflicted animals are two methods commonly used for diagnosis of orf infection; however, isolation of the ORFV in cell culture using virus-containing tissue as inoculum is known to be difficult. In this work, the ORFV (Hoping strain) isolated in central Taiwan was successfully grown in cell culture. We further examined the biochemical characteristic of our isolate, including viral genotyping, viral mRNA and protein expression. By electron microscopy, one unique form of viral particle from ORFV infected cellular lysate was demonstrated in the negative-stained field. Moreover, immunomodulating and anti-influenza virus properties of this ORFV were investigated. ORFV stimulated human monocytes (THP-1) secreting proinflammatory cytokines IL-8 and TNF-α. And, pre-treatment of ORFV-infected cell medium prevents A549 cells from subsequent type A influenza virus (IAV) infection. Similarly, mice infected with ORFV via both intramuscular and subcutaneous routes at two days prior to IAV infection significantly decreased the replication of IAV. In summary, the results of a current study indicated our Hoping strain harbors the immune modulator property; with such a bio-adjuvanticity, we further proved that pre-exposure of ORFV protects animals from subsequent IAV infection.
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Ectima Contagioso/virologia , Vírus do Orf/fisiologia , Infecções por Orthomyxoviridae/virologia , Animais , Células Cultivadas , Coinfecção/imunologia , Coinfecção/virologia , DNA Viral , Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Ectima Contagioso/fisiopatologia , Feminino , Doenças das Cabras/virologia , Cabras/virologia , Humanos , Vírus da Influenza A/imunologia , Influenza Humana/complicações , Influenza Humana/fisiopatologia , Influenza Humana/virologia , Interleucina-8/metabolismo , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Monócitos/metabolismo , Monócitos/virologia , Infecções por Orthomyxoviridae/complicações , Infecções por Orthomyxoviridae/fisiopatologia , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase/veterinária , Taiwan , Fator de Necrose Tumoral alfa/metabolismoAssuntos
Dermatite Atópica/complicações , Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Ectima Contagioso/diagnóstico , Doenças Profissionais/virologia , Superinfecção/virologia , Adolescente , Agricultura , Ectima Contagioso/virologia , Humanos , Masculino , Doenças Profissionais/diagnóstico , Vírus do Orf , Superinfecção/diagnósticoAssuntos
Humanos , Masculino , Idoso , Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Ectima Contagioso/diagnóstico , Ectima Contagioso/radioterapia , Couro Cabeludo/patologia , Couro Cabeludo , Ceratose Actínica/complicações , Ceratose Actínica/diagnóstico , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Ectima Contagioso/fisiopatologia , Ceratose Actínica/fisiopatologia , Ceratose Actínica/radioterapia , Crioterapia , Corticosteroides/uso terapêuticoRESUMO
CASE STUDY: A previously well male, 18 years of age, from a rural community, presented with three painful, itchy nodules on the fingers of his left hand, which had been present for 1 week. He had been prescribed amoxicillin clavulanate but presented again when there was no improvement after 4 days of taking antibiotics. Examination revealed three erythematous and umbilicated nodules without any halo, but with a central depression with exudate (Figure 1a). No specific treatment was instituted at this visit. One week later the patient re-presented with new erythematous lesions on the palms and dorsum of his hands. The original three lesions had improved and were drier than previously (Figure 1b, c). The new lesions disappeared after 2 weeks and the original lesions after 4 weeks, without any other treatment.
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Ectima Contagioso/diagnóstico , Eritema Multiforme/virologia , Dermatoses da Mão/virologia , Adolescente , Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Ectima Contagioso/virologia , Eritema Multiforme/complicações , Humanos , Masculino , Vírus do OrfAssuntos
Dermatite Ocupacional/diagnóstico , Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Ectima Contagioso/tratamento farmacológico , Eritema Multiforme/etiologia , Adulto , Animais , Dermatite Ocupacional/tratamento farmacológico , Progressão da Doença , Quimioterapia Combinada , Ectima Contagioso/diagnóstico , Eritema Multiforme/tratamento farmacológico , Eritema Multiforme/fisiopatologia , Dedos , Seguimentos , Dermatoses da Mão/tratamento farmacológico , Dermatoses da Mão/fisiopatologia , Humanos , Masculino , Medição de Risco , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , Ovinos , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
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Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Lactente , Pré-Escolar , Infecções Bacterianas/tratamento farmacológico , Dermatopatias Bacterianas/tratamento farmacológico , Antibacterianos/metabolismo , Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Anti-Infecciosos Locais/metabolismo , Anti-Infecciosos Locais/uso terapêutico , Celulite/complicações , Celulite/tratamento farmacológico , Linfangite/complicações , Linfangite/tratamento farmacológico , Infecções Bacterianas/etiologia , Infecções Bacterianas/fisiopatologia , Impetigo/complicações , Impetigo/tratamento farmacológico , Foliculite/tratamento farmacológico , Doenças das Glândulas Sudoríparas/complicações , Doenças das Glândulas Sudoríparas/tratamento farmacológico , Ectima/tratamento farmacológico , Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Erisipela/tratamento farmacológicoRESUMO
A 2-year-old East Friesian sheep imported from Australia exhibited severe anemia after contagious pustular dermatitis in Hokkaido, Japan. Hemoplasma infection was confirmed in blood smears. Both Mycoplasma ovis and 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemovis' were detected by PCR and sequence analyses. In the epidemiological analysis, dual pathogens were detected in 6 of 12 (50.0%) sheep imported from Australia with the infected ewe at the same time, 1 of 5 (20.0%) sheep introduced from a domestic farm in Hokkaido, and in 1 of 16 (6.3%) sheep from an epidemiologically unrelated ranch. It is the first clinical case of sheep to confirm coinfection of these pathogens in Japan.
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Anemia/veterinária , Infecções por Mycoplasma/veterinária , Mycoplasma/classificação , Doenças dos Ovinos/patologia , Anemia/epidemiologia , Anemia/microbiologia , Animais , Coinfecção , Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Feminino , Japão/epidemiologia , Infecções por Mycoplasma/complicações , Infecções por Mycoplasma/epidemiologia , Infecções por Mycoplasma/microbiologia , Filogenia , Ovinos , Doenças dos Ovinos/epidemiologia , Doenças dos Ovinos/microbiologiaRESUMO
Ecthyma contagiosum (orf) is caused by a parapox virus, which results in ulcerative stomatitis of mainly sheep and goats. The disease may be transmitted to humans through direct contact. Complications are rare in healthy individuals, who rarely report the disease. Two married, recreational sheep farmers, were bitten on their index fingers by an affected lamb. While the husband made an uneventful recovery after oral flucloxacillin, his wife was admitted to hospital with necrosis of her finger, cellulitis and lymphangitis requiring intravenous clindamycin. She subsequently developed a generalized maculo-papular rash, which was initially thought to be an adverse drug reaction, but, on hindsight, may have been erythema multiforme associated with orf. Orf is a common zoonosis, rarely reported in general practice. The disease is usually self-limiting and resolves in 6-8 weeks, but complications may occur. The diagnosis should be considered in at-risk occupational and religious groups.
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Mordeduras e Picadas/virologia , Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Ectima Contagioso/diagnóstico , Traumatismos dos Dedos/virologia , Necrose/virologia , Adulto , Criação de Animais Domésticos , Animais , Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Ectima Contagioso/transmissão , Feminino , Floxacilina/uso terapêutico , Humanos , Masculino , Necrose/tratamento farmacológico , Vírus do Orf , Ovinos , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
We report a case of orf on an ear in a patient admitted to hospital following the onset of Guillain-Barré syndrome. While the underlying causes of Guillain-Barré syndrome are not completely understood, immune stimulation appears to play a key role in pathogenesis. Any association between orf infection and Guillain-Barré syndrome has not been documented. A 22-year-old male sheep farmer, who was previously fit and well, presented to his local hospital with a 2-day history of distal upper and lower limb paraesthesia and weakness. He was transferred to a tertiary hospital where the diagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome was confirmed. History revealed that he had experienced a mild respiratory illness 3 weeks prior to presentation and an inflamed nodular lesion over his left ear, which had appeared 2 weeks prior to admission. Differential diagnoses of orf, atypical mycobacterial infection, subcutaneous mycosis and a squamous cell carcinoma were considered. Histopathology from a biopsy of the lesion was consistent with orf, which was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction testing. This case is of interest for two reasons: orf has not been described in association with Guillain-Barré syndrome, and orf on the ear is uncommon.
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Otopatias/complicações , Otopatias/virologia , Ectima Contagioso/complicações , Ectima Contagioso/virologia , Síndrome de Guillain-Barré/complicações , Adulto , Otopatias/patologia , Ectima Contagioso/patologia , Humanos , MasculinoRESUMO
Ecthyma contagiosum (orf) is a dermatosis commonly seen in those in contact with sheep. It is caused by Parapoxvirus ovis (orf virus), an oval epitheliotropic DNA parapox virus. The skin disease develops in stages starting as a macule or papule, becoming nodular, and then regressing. Diagnosis is based on history and histology, as well as identifying the virus through cell culture or specified polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The treatment of this self-limited disease is usually symptomatic.