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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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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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Neutralization Determinants on Poxviruses
Viruses, 2023 Smallpox was a highly contagious disease caused by the variola virus. The disease affected millions of people over thousands of years and variola virus ranked as one of the deadliest viruses in human history. The complete eradication of smallpox in 1980,
Vernuccio Riccardo, Guardado-Calvo Pablo
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Viruses, 2010 The absence of herd immunity to orthopoxviruses and the concern that variola or monkeypox viruses could be used for bioterroristic activities has stimulated the development of therapeutics and safer prophylactics.
R. Mark Buller +4 more
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