Poxvirus infection in a cat with presumptive human transmission

Veterinary Dermatology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 220-224

  Herder, Vanessa ^a   Wohlsein, Peter ^a   Grunwald, Dorothea ^b   Janssen, Hanno ^b   Meyer, Hermann ^c   Kaysser, Philipp ^c   Baumgärtner, Wolfgang ^a   Beineke, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b Heinrich Göbel Straße 1 ^*  (Germany)

^c BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAT; CAT DISEASE; COWPOX; COWPOX VIRUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; SKIN DISEASE; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; COWPOX; COWPOX VIRUS; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; COWPOX VIRUS; MURIDAE; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; POXVIRIDAE;

EID: 79952356419     PISSN: 09594493     EISSN: 13653164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3164.2010.00947.x     Document Type: Article

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