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Cowpox Virus Transmission from Pet Rats to Humans, France - Volume 15, Number 5—May 2009 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal

Transmission to humans is through contact with infected animals, mostly domestic cats, which are occasional predators of wild rodents (4–6). We studied an outbreak of cowpox virus cutaneous infection among 4 human case-patients.…Read more

Fatal Cowpox Virus Infection in Human Fetus, France, 2017 - Volume 27, Number 10—October 2021 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal

Among orthopoxviruses, fetal infection has been reported for variola virus and vaccinia virus; our findings suggest that CPXV poses the same threats for infection complications as vaccinia virus. Cowpox virus (CPXV) is a member…Read more

Cowpox with Severe Generalized Eruption, Finland - Volume 9, Number 11—November 2003 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal

The hemagglutinin gene of the isolate clustered with a Russian cowpox virus strain, and more distantly, with other cowpox and vaccinia virus strains. The patient’s dog had orthopoxvirus-specific antibodies, indicating…Read more

Atypical Cowpox Virus Infection in Smallpox-Vaccinated Patient, France - Volume 25, Number 2—February 2019 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal

Recent studies showed that cowpox virus is a unique name given to different strains with numerous misnomers (11–13). Rodents seem to be the main reservoirs of cowpox virus (14). Description of cowpox virus infections…Read more

Generalized Cowpox Virus Infection in a Patient with HIV, Germany, 2012 - Volume 22, Number 3—March 2016 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal

This group of viruses forms a distinct clade that is closer to taterapox, camelpox, and variola (smallpox) viruses than to another clade that contains other strains of cowpox virus and vaccinia and monkeypox viruses. Previous…Read more

Rat-to-Human Transmission of Cowpox Infection - Volume 8, Number 12—December 2002 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal

Our case is the first proven rat-to-human transmission of cowpox. Figure 1. Figure 1. Cowpox lesions with ulcerated nodules on upper lip and left lower eyelid, several molluscum-like-lesions on the right eyelids, and…Read more

Concomitant Human Infections with 2 Cowpox Virus Strains in Related Cases, France, 2011 - Volume 19, Number 12—December 2013 - Emerging Infectious Diseases…

The 2 strains were genetically related to viruses previously isolated from humans with cowpox infection in Europe. The Study. Figure 1. Figure 1. . Cowpox virus infection in 4 persons in France. The case-patients were…Read more

Figure - Rat-to-Elephant-to-Human Transmission of Cowpox Virus - Volume 14, Number 4—April 2008 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal

Epidemiol Infect. 1999;122:455–60. DOIPubMedGoogle Scholar. Wolfs TF, Wagenaar JA, Niesters HG, Osterhaus AD. Rat-to-human transmission of cowpox infection. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002;8:1495–6.PubMedGoogle Scholar. Eis-Hubinger…Read more

Rat-to-Elephant-to-Human Transmission of Cowpox Virus - Volume 14, Number 4—April 2008 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal

Human infections usually remain localized and self-limiting but can become fatal in immunosuppressed patients (5). CPXV infections in captive exotic animals have been reported to be transmitted by rodents (2,6). Figure. Figure. Route…Read more

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