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Rapid and high-throughput pan-Orthopoxvirus detection and identification using PCR and mass spectrometry. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
The genus Orthopoxvirus contains several species of related viruses, including the causative agent of smallpox (Variola virus). In addition to smallpox, several other members of the genus are capable of causing human infection, including monkeypox ...
Mark W Eshoo, Chris A Whitehouse, Aysegul Nalca, Scott Zoll, Joseph A Ecker, Thomas A Hall, Thuy-Trang D Pennella, David D Duncan, Anjali Desai, Emily K Moradi, Karl Rudnick, Brian Libby, Raymond Ranken, Rangarajan Sampath, Steven A Hofstadler, David J Ecker, Lawrence B Blyn   +16 more
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Systematic Review On New Face of Monkeypox Virus

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2022
A member of the Poxviridae family of orthopoxviruses, the monkeypox virus, is the causative agent of monkeypox, The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the disease is thought to be endemic, is one of the most common locations where it occurs in
Shilpa Rana, Pooja Negi, Meena Devi, Mansi Butola, Arif Nur Muhammad Ansori, Vikash Jakhmola   +5 more
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Apparition de lésions proches de la variole bovine chez des bovins en Israël

Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, 1996
Les auteurs décrivent deux formes cliniques différentes de variole bovine apparues sporadiquement dans un troupeau laitier et dans un troupeau à viande.
I. Yeruham, A. Nyska, A. Abraham, Radu Algazi   +3 more
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Orthopoxvirus infection transmitted by a domestic cat

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2006
The variola virus was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization in 1980 but human infections by cowpox virus, another member of the genus Orthopoxvirus, are still observed, mainly in European countries. We report a woman who presented with two umbilicated vesicles surrounded by an indurated erythematous edema within cat scratch injuries on ...
Haenssle, Holger Andreas, Kiessling, J., Kempf, Volkhard A. J., Fuchs, Tina, Neumann, C., Emmert, Steffen   +5 more
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Viral genomic features predict Orthopoxvirus reservoir hosts. [PDF]

Commun Biol
Tseng KK, Koehler H, Becker DJ, Gibb R, Carlson CJ, Pilar Fernandez MD, Seifert SN.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by Yersinia pestis in Afghanistan. [PDF]

, 2011
Plague, which is most often caused by the bite of Yersinia pestis-infected fleas, is a rapidly progressing, serious disease that can be fatal without prompt antibiotic treatment.
Ayazi, E, Baldwin, C, Hami, AS, Kakar, F, Kakar, R, Leslie, T, Mofleh, J, Mustafa, L, Noormal, B, Omar, F, Rossi, C, Whitehouse, CA, Yingst, S, Ziar, N   +13 more
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Seasonality of human orthopoxvirus infections

, 2022
Variola infections (smallpox) showed seasonality in temperate climates. This sharp seasonality (peaking in the Winter-Spring) may have important ramifications for control and elimination of human monkeypox (MPX) and should be considered in planning public health response.
Andrew Lover, Andrew Noymer
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Orthopoxvirus Targets for the Development of Antiviral Therapies [PDF]

Current Drug Target -Infectious Disorders, 2005
The potential use of smallpox virus as a bioterror agent and the endemic presence of monkeypox virus in Africa underscores the need for better therapies for orthopoxvirus infections. The only existing clinical experience treating vaccinia and smallpox infections has been with Marboran, which suggested that antiviral therapies could be effective in ...
Earl R. Kern, Mark N. Prichard
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Targeting of IL-2 to cytotoxic lymphocytes as an improved method of cytokine-driven immunotherapy [PDF]

, 2017
The use of high-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) has fallen out of favor due to severe life-threatening side effects. We have recently described a unique way of directly targeting IL-2 to cytotoxic lymphocytes using a virally encoded immune evasion protein and ...
Fremont, Daved H, Ghasemi, Reza, Hein, Sarah M, Krupnick, Alexander Sasha, Lazear, Eric, Watkins, Dan, Westwick, John   +6 more
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Genomic Sequencing and Phylogenomics of Cowpox Virus [PDF]

, 2022
Cowpox virus (CPXV; genus Orthopoxvirus; family Poxviridae) is the causative agent of cowpox, a self-limiting zoonotic infection. CPXV is endemic in Eurasia, and human CPXV infections are associated with exposure to infected animals. In the Fennoscandian
Brinkmann, Annika, Diaz Cánova, Diana Karina, Mavian, Carla, Moens, Ugo, Nitsche, Andreas, Okeke, Malachy Ifeanyi   +5 more
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