Specimens from a vesicular lesion caused by molluscum contagiosum virus produced a cytopathic effect in cell culture that mimicked that produced by herpes simplex virus

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 283-286

  Bell, Constance A ^a,c   Eberly, Allison P ^a   Takata, Geraldine ^a   Combs, Raelene K ^a   Deweese, Nathan E ^b   Whelen, A Christian ^a  

^a TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S ARMY   (United States)

^c US Army Dental and Trauma Research Detachment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMIQUIMOD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHORDOPOXVIRINAE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MOLLUSCIPOXVIRUS; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; PARAPOXVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POXVIRUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT, VIRAL; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM VIRUS; SIMPLEXVIRUS; SKIN DISEASES, VESICULOBULLOUS;

CHORDOPOXVIRINAE; MOLLUSCIPOXVIRUS; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM VIRUS; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; PARAPOXVIRUS; POXVIRIDAE; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 30744453285     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.1.283-286.2006     Document Type: Article

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