Smallpox Vaccination of Laboratory Workers at US Variola Testing Sites
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015 To evaluate the need to revaccinate laboratory workers against smallpox, we assessed regular revaccination at the US Laboratory Response Network’s variola testing sites by examining barriers to revaccination and the potential for persistence of immunity.
Sharon Medcalf +8 more
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Struggling to a monumental triumph : Re-assessing the final stages of the smallpox eradication program in India, 1960-1980 [PDF]
, 2007 The global smallpox program is generally presented as the brainchild of a handful of actors from the WHO headquarters in Geneva and at the agency's regional offices.
Basu, R. N +33 more
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Serological studies on an outbreak of smallpox in the State of Bahia - Brazil in 1969
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1972 Four weeks after Containment Vaccination undertaken against the largest outbreak of smallpox occured in Brazil in 1969, that of the municipality of Utinga, Bahia, 99 samples of serum were collected from the local population. These samples were classified
Eduardo de Azeredo Costa +3 more
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Development of CMX001 for the Treatment of Poxvirus Infections
Viruses, 2010 CMX001 (phosphonic acid, [[(S)-2-(4-amino-2-oxo-1(2H)-pyrimidinyl)-1-(hydroxymethyl)ethoxy]methyl]mono[3-(hexadecyloxy)propyl] ester) is a lipid conjugate of the acyclic nucleotide phosphonate, cidofovir (CDV).
George Painter +10 more
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From actually toxic to highly specific – novel drugs against poxviruses [PDF]
, 2007 The potential use of variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, as a bioweapon and the endemic presence of monkeypox virus in Africa demonstrate the need for better therapies for orthopoxvirus infections. Chemotherapeutic approaches to control viral
Sliva, Katja, Schnierle, Barbara
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A Note on the Influence of the Chemical Rays of Daylight on Vaccinia in Animals [PDF]
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Green, Alan B.
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Poxvirus Viability and Signatures in Historical Relics
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 Although it has been >30 years since the eradication of smallpox, the unearthing of well-preserved tissue material in which the virus may reside has called into question the viability of variola virus decades or centuries after its original occurrence ...
Andrea M. McCollum +7 more
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Should Remaining Stockpiles of Smallpox Virus (Variola) Be Destroyed?
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011 In 2011, the World Health Organization will recommend the fate of existing smallpox stockpiles, but circumstances have changed since the complete destruction of these cultures was first proposed.
Raymond S. Weinstein
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Development of a High-Content Orthopoxvirus Infectivity and Neutralization Assays. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Currently, a number of assays measure Orthopoxvirus neutralization with serum from individuals, vaccinated against smallpox. In addition to the traditional plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT), newer higher throughput assays are based on ...
Irina Gates +5 more
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Characterization of Two Historic Smallpox Specimens from a Czech Museum
Viruses, 2017 Although smallpox has been known for centuries, the oldest available variola virus strains were isolated in the early 1940s. At that time, large regions of the world were already smallpox-free.
Petr Pajer +22 more
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