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Improper utilization of surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis frequently leads to increased risks of morbidity and mortality.This study aims to understand the common causative organism of postoperative orthopedic infection and document the surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis protocol across various institutions in to order to strengthen surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis practice and provide higher-quality surgical care.

In this study, pox-like outbreaks in goat population was investigated that occurred in a high altitude goat farm located in Mizoram, a hilly state of North eastern India. The outbreak initially involved the serows, an wild animal belonging to the family Bovidae, subfamily Caprinae and genus Capricornis, the state animal of Mizoram. Later, the disease affected the domestic goat population. The disease was diagnosed on the basis of gross lesions and PCR amplification of partial P32 gene of capripox virus. The virus was isolated in vero cells. The full length P32 gene was sequenced and phylogenetic tree was constructed. It was revealed that the capripox virus isolated from the outbreak was closely related to the Chinese strain of goatpox virus at both amino acid and nucleotide level. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first report on isolation and characterization of capripoxvirus from north eastern region of India.