title: Orf: a family with unusual complications.
abstract: Three members of a farming family and their local postman contracted orf. One of those affected had had no direct contact with infected sheep. Two of the family developed a widespread papulo-vesicular eruption of the skin and mucosae with pyrexia, malaise and lymphadenopathy lasting 4-5 weeks. The eruption did not resemble erythema multiforme or the toxic erythemas usually associated with this infection.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D004474:Ecthyma, Contagious / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012756:Sheep