Cat-to-human orthopoxvirus transmission, northeastern Italy

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 499-500

  Carletti, Fabrizio ^a   Bordi, Licia ^a   Castilletti, Concetta ^a   Caro, Antonino Di ^a   Falasca, Laura ^a   Gioia, Cristiana ^a   Ippolito, Giuseppe ^a   Zaniratti, Stefania ^a   Beltrame, Anna ^b   Viale, Pierluigi ^b   Capobianchi, Maria Rosaria ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 63849261311     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1503.080813     Document Type: Letter

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