Chasing Jenner's vaccine: Revisiting Cowpox virus classification

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Carroll, Darin S ^a   Emerson, Ginny L ^a   Li, Yu ^a   Sammons, Scott ^a   Olson, Victoria ^a   Frace, Michael ^a   Nakazawa, Yoshinori ^a,b   Czerny, Claus Peter ^c   Tryland, Morten ^d,e   Kolodziejek, Jolanta ^f   Nowotny, Norbert ^f,g   Olsen Rasmussen, Melissa ^a   Khristova, Marina ^a   Govil, Dhwani ^a   Karem, Kevin ^a   Damon, Inger K ^a   Meyer, Hermann ^h  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^e The Science Park   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^g SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^h BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHASING JENNER VACCINE; COWPOX VIRUS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS VACCINE; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; COWPOX VIRUS; EUROPE; GENOTYPE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; UNITED KINGDOM; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALIA; COWPOX VIRUS; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; VACCINIA VIRUS; VARIOLA VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COWPOX VIRUS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 79961202383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023086     Document Type: Article

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