OCCURRENCE OF POX INFECTIONS IN CAMELS

Camel pox (CP); and contagious ecthyma (CE) are widely distributed amo ng camel population in Asia, USSR, the Middle; East, North and East Af rica (Mc Grane and Higgins, 1986). In India, the occurrence of camel p ox (CP) was first documented by Leese (1909) based on clinical examina tion. Since then, some work, particularly on epidemiological and clini co pathological aspects of pox infections in Indian camels have been p ublished (Chauhan et al., 1985 and Chauhan and Kaushik, 1987), Relevan t/immunological and biochemical tests have indicated an independent ca mel pox virus species infecting camels (Munt, 1992). The present paper provides information on the epidemiological and clinicopathological a spects of pox infections in an organised camel farm of the National Re search Centre on camel, Bikaner.