Isolation and Iidentification of a Fuzhou Strain of the Orf Virus

In this study,an Orf virus strain,named ORFV-FZ,was isolated from the infected goat in the farm of Fuzhou in Fujian.The B2 Lgene fragment of the ORFV-FZ strain was amplified and sequenced.The sequencing result showed that the nucleotide homology of the ORFV-FZ strain with those strains from Fujian,Xinjiang and Guangxi were above 99%,in which,the homology between ORFV-FZ and FJ-YX strain was up to 99.8%,indicated the possibility of the same origin of these two strains.