Delia Lacasta, Marina Ríos, Marta Ruiz de Arcaute, Aurora Ortín, Juan José Ramos, Sergio Villanueva-Saz, María Teresa Tejedor, Héctor Ruiz, Marta Borobia, Ramsés Reina, Alex Gómez, Teresa Navarro, Peter Andrew Windsor
Contagious ecthyma is a highly transmissible eruptive viral disease of the skin and mucosa of sheep and goats distributed worldwide. The treatment of orf lesions is usually based on the use of antiseptics and antibiotics for the management of presumptive secondary infections, increasing risks of antimicrobial resistance. The wound dressing formulation Tri-Solfen® (TS) containing two local anaesthetics (lignocaine and bupivacaine), adrenaline and an antiseptic (cetrimide) in a gel formulation has been demonstrated to reduce suffering and enhance recovery in cattle and buffalo with oral and skin lesions due to foot-and-mouth disease virus infection and reduced the orf viral load in lambs...
September 19, 2023: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI