Cowpox: Reservoir hosts and geographic range

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 455-460

  Chantrey, J ^b   Meyer, H ^b   Baxby, D ^b   Begon, M ^b   Bown, K J ^b   Hazel, S M ^b   Jones, T ^b   Montgomery, W I ^b   Bennett, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAT; COWPOX VIRUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IRELAND; NONHUMAN; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032780371     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268899002423     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Jenner E. An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae, a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the cow pox. London: Sampson Low, 1798.
2. Baxby D. Is cowpox misnamed? A review of 10 human cases. BMJ 1977; i: 1379-81.
3. Baxby D. Jenner's smallpox vaccine. The riddle of vaccinia virus and its origin. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1981.
4. Maceachran D. Horse-pox. Vet J 1880; 10: 381-4.
5. Depaul M. Expériences faites à l'Académie Impériale de Médecine avec le cow-pox ou vaccin animal. Paris: Ballières, 1868.
6. Bennett M, Gaskell CJ, Baxby D, Gaskell RM, Kelly DF, Naidoo J. Feline cowpox virus infection. J Small Anim Pract 1990; 31: 167-73.
7. Bomhard D, von Pfleghaar S, Mahnel H. Zur Epidemiologie, Klinik, Pathologie und Virologie der Katzen-Pocken-Infektion. Kleintierpraxis 1992; 37: 219-30.
8. Baxby D, Bennett M, Getty B. Human cowpox; a review based on 54 cases, 1969-93. Br J Dermatol 1994; 131: 598-607.
9. Pilaski J, Rosen-Wölff XX. Poxvirus infection in zookept mammals. In: Darai G, ed. Virus diseases in laboratory and captive animals. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishing, 1987: 83-100.
10. Smith KC, Bennett M, Garrett DC. Skin lesions caused by poxvirus infection in a dog. Abstract in Proceedings of the European Society of Veterinary Pathology Conference, 1998.
11. Marennikova SS, Shelukhina EA, Efremova, EV. New outlook on the biology of cowpox. Acta Virol 1984; 57: 461-4.
12. Tsanava SA, Sakvarelidze LA, Shelukhina EM. Serologic survey of wild rodents in Georgia for antibodies to orthopoxviruses. Acta Virol 1989; 33: 91.
13. Marennikova SS, Shelukhina EM, Fimina V. Pox infection in white rats. Lab Anim 1978; 12: 33-6.
14. Marennikova SS, Maltseva NN, Korneeva VI, Garanina NM. Outbreak of pox disease among carnivora (Felidae) and Edentata. J Infect Dis 1977; 135: 358-66.
15. Webster JP, Macdonald DW. Parasites of brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) on UK farms. Parasitai 1995; 111: 247-55.
16. Lvov SD, Gromashevskyi VL, Marennikova SS, et al. Poxvirus isolation from Microtus oeconomus Pal. 1776 in Colsky peninsula. Vop Virus 1988; 1: 92-4.
17. Kaplan C, Healing TD, Evans N, Healing L, Prior A. Evidence of infection by viruses in British field rodents. J Hyg 1980; 84: 285-94.
18. Crouch AC, Baxby D, McCracken CM, Gaskell RM, Bennett M. Serological evidence for the reservoir hosts of cowpox virus in British wildlife. Epidemiol Infect 1995; 115: 185-91.
19. Boulanger D, Crouch A, Brochier B, et al. Serological survey of orthopoxvirus infection of mammals in areas where a recombinant rabies virus is used to vaccinate foxes. Vet Rec 1996; 138: 247-9.
20. Tryland M, Sandvik T, Mehl R, Bennett M, Traavik T, Olsvik O. Serosurvey for orthopoxviruses in rodents and shrews from Norway. J Wildl Dis 1998 ; 34: 240-50.
21. Bennett M, Crouch AJ, Begon ME, et al. Cowpox in British voles and mice. J Comp Path 1997; 116: 35-44.
22. Tantawi HH, Zaghloul TM, Zakaria M. Poxvirus infection in a rat (Rattus norvegicus) in Kuwait. Int J Zoonoses 1983; 10: 28-32.
23. Mahnel H, Holejsovsky J, Bartak P, Czerny C-P. Kongenitale Ektromelie bei pelzttieren durch orthopoxvirus muris. Teirarztliche Praxis 1993; 21: 469-72.
24. Baxby D, Hill BJ. Characteristics of a new poxvirus isolated from Indian buffaloes. Arch Gesamte Virus-forsch 1971; 35: 70-9.
25. Henning K, Czerny CP, Meyer H, Muller T, Kramer M. A seroepidemiological survey for orthopoxvirus in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes). Vet Microbiol 1995; 43: 251-9.
26. Muller T, Henning K, Kramer M, Czerny CP, Meyer H, Ziedler K. Seroprevalence of orthopoxvirus-specific antibodies in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in the federal state Brandenburg, Germany. J Wildl Dis 1996; 32: 348-53.
27. Corbet GB, Harris S. The handbook of British mammals, 3rd edn. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1991.
28. Livesley MA, Carey D, Geru L, Nuttall P. Problems of isolating Borrelia burgdorferi from ticks collected in United Kingdom foci of Lyme-disease. Med Vet Entomol 1994; 8: 172-8.
29. Thomas I, Brochier B, Languet B, et al. Primary multiplication site of the vaccinia-rabies glycoprotein recombinant virus administered to foxes by the oral route. J Gen Virol 1990; 71: 37-42.
30. Meyer H, Osterrieder N, Czerny C-P. Identification of binding-sites for neutralizing monoclonal-antibodies on the 14-kda fusion protein of orthopoxviruses. Virol 1994; 200: 778-83.
31. Program Manual, Wisconsin Package, version 8 Madison Wisconsin: Genetics Computer Group, 1994.
32. Felsenstein, J. PHYLIP: phylogenetic inference package (version 3.2) Cladistics 1989; 5: 164-6.
33. Begon M, Feore S, Bown K, Chantrey J, Jones T, Bennett M. The population dynamics of cowpox virus infection in bank voles: testing fundamental assumptions. Ecology Lett 1998; 1: 82-6.