Recent cases in the German poxvirus consulting laboratory

Revue de Medecine Veterinaire

Volumn 153, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 635-642

  Essbauer, Sandra ^a   Meyer, H ^b   Kaaden, O R ^a   Pfeffer, M ^a  

^a Inst Med M Infect/Epidem Dis   (Germany)

^b Sanitatsakademie der Bundeswehr   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cats; Cowpox; Elephants; Orthopoxvirus; Poxvirus; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE; VACCINIA VACCINE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CAT DISEASE; COW; COWPOX VIRUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELEPHANT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GERMANY; HOST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POXVIRUS; POXVIRUS INFECTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; SMALLPOX; SMALLPOX VIRUS; SWINE DISEASE; TRAVEL; VACCINATION; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; ANKARA; AVES; CIRCUS; COWPOX VIRUS; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; FELIS CATUS; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; POXVIRIDAE; SUS SCROFA; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS; VARIOLA VIRUS;

EID: 0036820565     PISSN: 00351555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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