A New Approach to the Treatment of Lumpy Skin Disease Infection in Cattle by using Propolis Encapsulated within ALG NPS
Tarek Korany Farag, Asmaa S. El-Houssiny, Eman H. Abdel‐Rahman, Ahmed G. Hegazı
Abstract
L umpy skin disease (LSD) is a contagious, fatal skin disease affecting cattle and caused by LSDV which belongs to the family Poxviridae.LSDV is a double-stranded DNA virus (Onyejekwe et al., 2019).It is a member of the genus Capripoxvirus of Poxviridae with the size of its genome 151-kbp (Bhanuprakash et al., 2006).LSDV is a transboundary high-impact cattle disease characterized by fever, nodular formation, a rapid eruption of skin nodules, enlarged superficial lymph node, generalized lymphadenitis, and edema with great economic losses (Abera et al., 2015(Abera et al., , Şevik et al., 2016;;Rouby et al., 2019).It is usually more prevalent during the wet summer and au-research