Research with variola virus after smallpox eradication: Development of a mouse model for variola virus infection. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2021 Funder: Wellcome ...
Bernard Moss, Geoffrey L Smith
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The Origin of the Variola Virus [PDF]
Viruses, 2015 The question of the origin of smallpox, one of the major menaces to humankind, is a constant concern for the scientific community. Smallpox is caused by the agent referred to as the variola virus (VARV), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.
Igor V. Babkin, Irina N. Babkina
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Prediction of steps in the evolution of variola virus host range. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Variola virus, the agent of smallpox, has a severely restricted host range (humans) but a devastatingly high mortality rate. Although smallpox has been eradicated by a World Health Organization vaccination program, knowledge of the evolutionary processes
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Efficacy of heat against the vaccinia virus, variola virus and monkeypox virus. [PDF]
J Hosp Infect, 2022 Kampf G.
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Gene duplication, gene loss, and recombination events with variola virus shaped the complex evolutionary path of historical American horsepox-based smallpox vaccines [PDF]
mBio, 2023 Vaccinia virus is the active component of all modern smallpox vaccines after the mid-20th century, but it is uncertain to what extent cowpox, vaccinia, and horsepox viruses were used to produce vaccines before then.
Aline R. V. Souza +4 more
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Evidence of Long-Distance Aerial Convection of Variola Virus and Implications for Disease Control [PDF]
Viruses, 2019 Two distinct phenomena of airborne transmission of variola virus (smallpox) were described in the pre-eradication era—direct respiratory transmission, and a unique phenomenon of transmission over greater distances, referred to as “aerial ...
Chandini Raina MacIntyre +4 more
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SUSCEPTIBILITY OF SUCKLING MICE TO VARIOLA VIRUS [PDF]
Journal of Bacteriology, 1961 Marshall, Ronald G. (Army Chemical Corps, Fredrick, Md.), and Peter J. Gerone . Susceptibility of suckling mice to variola virus. J. Bacteriol. 82: 15–19. 1961.—The susceptibility of suckling mice inoculated intraperitoneally or intracerebrally with variola virus was investigated.
Ronald G. Marshall, Peter J. Gerone
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Analysis of variola virus molecular evolution suggests an old origin of the virus consistent with historical records. [PDF]
Microb Genom, 2023 Forni D +4 more
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Single-Dose Assay Technique for Variola Virus [PDF]
Applied Microbiology, 1964 A biological assay for variola virus was needed that would (i) require a minimum of time and (ii) have acceptable precision. Preliminary titrations made in 11-day-old embryonated eggs and in suckling mice (6 to 24 hr of age) demonstrated a linear relationship between the concentration of variola virus injected and the mean reciprocal time to death (MTD)
Jean M. Riley, Michael D. Orlando
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Re-Assembly and Analysis of an Ancient Variola Virus Genome [PDF]
Viruses, 2017 We report a major improvement to the assembly of published short read sequencing data from an ancient variola virus (VARV) genome by the removal of contig-capping sequencing tags and manual searches for gap-spanning reads. The new assembly, together with
Chad Smithson, Jacob Imbery, Chris Upton
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