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Chapter 15 Poxvirus infections

Poxviruses are the largest and most complicated viruses of humans and they more resemble reduced bacteria than viruses. The relatedness and important differentiations between variola, monkeypox and vaccinia have been analyzed at DNA level. The laboratory differentiation between variola, monkeypox, v...

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Publicado: Published by Elsevier B.V. 1985
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9629580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36345299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0168-7069(08)70023-5
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description Poxviruses are the largest and most complicated viruses of humans and they more resemble reduced bacteria than viruses. The relatedness and important differentiations between variola, monkeypox and vaccinia have been analyzed at DNA level. The laboratory differentiation between variola, monkeypox, vaccinia, and cowpox is especially important since they can cause similar symptoms. Smallpox has for thousands of years been a most feared disease. It has left its marks on the 3000 year old mummy of Ramses V and it was the deadly cargo of the conquistadore ships landing in Mexico. The successful global vaccination campaign resulted, in 1977, in the last natural case of smallpox. World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared that smallpox had been completely eradicated from the earth. The smallpox virus is still present in a few freezers in special designated laboratories. The eradication of smallpox will be described at some length as the first, but hopefully not the last, example of an eradication of a severe human disease.
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spelling pubmed-96295802022-11-03 Chapter 15 Poxvirus infections Perspect Med Virol Article Poxviruses are the largest and most complicated viruses of humans and they more resemble reduced bacteria than viruses. The relatedness and important differentiations between variola, monkeypox and vaccinia have been analyzed at DNA level. The laboratory differentiation between variola, monkeypox, vaccinia, and cowpox is especially important since they can cause similar symptoms. Smallpox has for thousands of years been a most feared disease. It has left its marks on the 3000 year old mummy of Ramses V and it was the deadly cargo of the conquistadore ships landing in Mexico. The successful global vaccination campaign resulted, in 1977, in the last natural case of smallpox. World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared that smallpox had been completely eradicated from the earth. The smallpox virus is still present in a few freezers in special designated laboratories. The eradication of smallpox will be described at some length as the first, but hopefully not the last, example of an eradication of a severe human disease. Published by Elsevier B.V. 1985 2008-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9629580/ /pubmed/36345299 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0168-7069(08)70023-5 Text en © 1985 Elsevier has created a Monkeypox Information Center (https://www.elsevier.com/connect/monkeypox-information-center) in response to the declared public health emergency of international concern, with free information in English on the monkeypox virus. The Monkeypox Information Center is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its monkeypox related research that is available on the Monkeypox Information Center - including this research content - immediately available in publicly funded repositories, with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the Monkeypox Information Center remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9629580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36345299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0168-7069(08)70023-5