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Cowpox virus: What’s in a Name? [PDF]
Viruses, 2017 Traditionally, virus taxonomy relied on phenotypic properties; however, a sequence-based virus taxonomy has become essential since the recent requirement of a species to exhibit monophyly.
Matthew R. Mauldin +6 more
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Rat-to-Human Transmission of Cowpox Infection [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 We isolated Cowpox virus (CPXV) from the ulcerative eyelid lesions of a 14-year-old girl, who had cared for a clinically ill wild rat that later died. CPXV isolated from the rat (Rattus norvegicus) showed complete homology with the girl’s virus. Our case
Tom F.W. Wolfs +3 more
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Cowpox Virus Transmission from Pet Rats to Humans, Germany [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 We describe a cluster of cowpox virus (CPXV) infections in humans that occurred near Munich, Germany, around the beginning of 2009. Previously, only sporadic reports of CPXV infections in humans after direct contact with various animals had been ...
Hartmut Campe +11 more
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Chasing Jenner's vaccine: revisiting cowpox virus classification. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Cowpox virus (CPXV) is described as the source of the first vaccine used to prevent the onset and spread of an infectious disease. It is one of the earliest described members of the genus Orthopoxvirus, which includes the viruses that cause smallpox and ...
Darin S Carroll +16 more
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Seasonal recurrence of cowpox virus outbreaks in captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Cowpox virus infections in captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) with high morbidity and mortality have already been reported in the UK and Russia in the 1970s. However, most of the reported cases have been singular events.
Julia Stagegaard +6 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 Cowpox virus (CPXV) was isolated from skin lesions of a llama on a farm in Italy. Transmission electron microscopy showed brick-shaped particles consistent with orthopoxviruses.
Giusy Cardeti +11 more
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Cowpox after a cat scratch – case report from Poland
Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2015 Cowpox in humans is a rare zoonotic disease; its recognition is therefore problematic due to the lack of clinical experience. The differential diagnosis includes other poxvirus infections and also infections with herpesviruses or selected bacteria.
Karolina Świtaj +3 more
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Genomic expression libraries for the identification of cross-reactive orthopoxvirus antigens. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Increasing numbers of human cowpox virus infections that are being observed and that particularly affect young non-vaccinated persons have renewed interest in this zoonotic disease.
Lilija Miller +4 more
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Vaccine skepticism and vaccine development stages; inoculation from "cowpox" lesion to the current mRNA vaccine of COVID-19: review. [PDF]
Ther Adv Vaccines ImmunotherTafere C +6 more
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Monkeypox: A Little-Studied Biological Threat to Russia
Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023 Monkeypox is a natural focal zoonosis of rodents and monkeys living in the Congo Valley (clade CB) and West Africa (clade WA). The special interest in monkeypox is due to its pandemic spread, which began in May 2022.
M. V. Supotnitskiy
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