Human infection with a zoonotic orthopoxvirus in the country of Georgia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 1223-1230

  Vora, Neil M ^a,b   Li, Yu ^b   Geleishvili, Marika ^a,c   Emerson, Ginny L ^b   Khmaladze, Ekaterine ^d   Maghlakelidze, Giorgi ^e   Navdarashvili, Archil ^d   Zakhashvili, Khatuna ^d   Kokhreidze, Maka ^e   Endeladze, Marina ^f   Mokverashvili, Gela ^g   Satheshkumar, P S ^b   Gallardo Romero, Nadia ^b   Goldsmith, Cynthia S ^b   Metcalfe, Maureen G ^b   Damon, Inger ^b   Maes, Edmond F ^a   Reynolds, Mary G ^b   Morgan, Juliette ^a,c   Carroll, Darin S ^b  

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

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c CDC Georgia Country Office   (Georgia)

^d National Center for Disease Control and Public Health   (Georgia)

^e Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture   (Georgia)

^f AIDS and Clinical Immunology Research Center   (Georgia)

^g National Food Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COW; COWPOX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA VIRUS INFECTION; EXPOSURE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HERD; HUMAN; MALE; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; ORTHOPOXVIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; SEROLOGY; SHREW; SKIN DEFECT; SMALLPOX; VACCINATION; VIRUS DETECTION; ZOONOSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BOVINAE; CATTLE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GEORGIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; POXVIRUS INFECTION; TRANSMISSION; UDDER; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

SMALLPOX VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RODENTIA; SHREWS; SMALLPOX VACCINE; YOUNG ADULT; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84925430814     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1407647     Document Type: Article

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