Letter: Orf in Britain.

Orf

DURING the spring and early summer of 1955 an unusually large number of cases of orf were seen in patients attending the various skin clinics in Northern Ireland. The condition aroused considerable interest, and it is hoped that these notes may prove helpful to local practitioners. Orf is an infective disease, caused by a filtrable virus of the pox group, affecting commonly sheep and goats. The...

Orf.

independent replicate experiments. Deletion of these genes affects the fitness of mutant strains in iron deficiency. The requirement for growth of each gene was quantified as a log 2 ratio of growth of the corresponding mutant strain in YPD with BPS compared to YPD alone. The log 2 fitness represents the average of the significant values in these experiments. A negative value indicates sensitiv...

Etymologia: Orf

Printed in Great Britain LETTER TO THE EDITOR HAND DEFORMITIES IN PARKINSONISM

IN HIS original and classic description of the disease that now bears his name, PARKINSON [l] noted the progressive muscular rigidity, the characteristic pill-rolling tremor, the stooping posture, the shufEing gait and the akinesia that characterize this condition. He did not, however, describe the digital deformities that are the subject of this paper. C~GCESHALL [2] states that “Charcot first...

Orf – an orphan disease?

Human orf should be considered based on a typical presentation with erythematous papule/nodule to avoid unnecessary over-treatment.