It causes fever and skin nodules, and can be fatal for cattle. LSDV was first found in Zambia in 1931 and remained confined to the Sub-African region until 1989, after which it started spreading ...

Infection of the skin and hair of cattle is most frequently due to Trichophyton verrucosum, a spore forming fungi. Spores are shed from the lesion by broken hairs or scabs from the lesion. The spores ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. In human JEB, besides mutations of the laminin-5 gene, mutations in type XVII collagen and α6β4-integrin genes have been reported 25.