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included contagious pustular stomatitis, Contagious ecthyma, ecthyma contagiosum, infectious pustular dermatitis, infectious labial dermatitis, sore mouth, scabby mouth and Orf (De Wet and Murie, 2011). The etiology of Contagious ecthyma disease is type species of the genus Parapoxvirus of subfamily Chordopoxvirinae of family Poxviridae (Nandi et al., 2011; ICTV, 2014). It is an epitheliotropic parapoxvirus that induces proliferative lesions in the skin of sheep, goats, wild ruminants, humans, and very rarely, dogs (Bassioukas et al.