Rat-to-elephant-to-human transmission of cowpox virus

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 670-671

  Kurth, Andreas ^a   Wibbelt, Gudrun ^b   Gerber, Hans Peter ^c   Petschaelis, Angelika ^d   Pauli, Georg ^a   Nitsche, Andreas ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Veterinär und Lebensmittelüberwachung   (Germany)

^d Fachgebiet Gesundheitsamt des Landkreises Nordvorpommern   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COWPOX; COWPOX VIRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; VACCINATION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 42049113427     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1404.070817     Document Type: Letter

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