Outbreak of Human Buffalopox Infection

An outbreak of febrile illness with vesicular lesions on hands and forearms of six persons was investigated. There was simultaneous outbreak of similar illness in buffaloes that were milked by these persons. Buffaloes had lesions on many parts of body including udder and teats. Manual milking withou...

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Autores principales: Damle, Ajit S, Gaikwad, Anil A, Patwardhan, Neeta S, Duthade, Mangal M, Sheikh, Nazneen S, Deshmukh, Durgesh G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Clinical Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731308
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.81698
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author Damle, Ajit S
Gaikwad, Anil A
Patwardhan, Neeta S
Duthade, Mangal M
Sheikh, Nazneen S
Deshmukh, Durgesh G
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description An outbreak of febrile illness with vesicular lesions on hands and forearms of six persons was investigated. There was simultaneous outbreak of similar illness in buffaloes that were milked by these persons. Buffaloes had lesions on many parts of body including udder and teats. Manual milking without gloves exposed the persons to the infection. Investigations proved that both the outbreaks were due to buffalopox virus infection. Improved dairy practices like wearing gloves while milking might help in prevention of spread of infection to other animals and humans.
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spelling pubmed-31250342011-07-01 Outbreak of Human Buffalopox Infection Damle, Ajit S Gaikwad, Anil A Patwardhan, Neeta S Duthade, Mangal M Sheikh, Nazneen S Deshmukh, Durgesh G J Glob Infect Dis Clinical Epidemiology An outbreak of febrile illness with vesicular lesions on hands and forearms of six persons was investigated. There was simultaneous outbreak of similar illness in buffaloes that were milked by these persons. Buffaloes had lesions on many parts of body including udder and teats. Manual milking without gloves exposed the persons to the infection. Investigations proved that both the outbreaks were due to buffalopox virus infection. Improved dairy practices like wearing gloves while milking might help in prevention of spread of infection to other animals and humans. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3125034/ /pubmed/21731308 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.81698 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Global Infectious Diseases http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Outbreak of Human Buffalopox Infection
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