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Zoonotic vaccinia virus infection in Brazil: clinical description and implications for health professionals.

ABSTRACT: Bovine vaccinia virus outbreaks have been occurring in different regions of Brazil. We report here the time course of natural human infection by vaccinia virus and describe important clinical and epidemiological aspects of this zoonotic infection. The diagnosis of vaccinia virus infection was based on clinical, serological, and molecular procedures.

SUBMITTER: de Souza Trindade G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1865848 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr

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Zoonotic vaccinia virus infection in Brazil: clinical description and implications for health professionals.

de Souza Trindade Giliane G Drumond Betania Paiva BP Guedes Maria Isabel Maldonado Coelho MI Leite Juliana Almeida JA Mota Bruno Eduardo Fernandes BE Campos Marco Antônio MA da Fonseca Flávio Guimarães FG Nogueira Maurício Lacerda ML Lobato Zélia Inês Portela ZI Bonjardim Cláudio Antônio CA Ferreira Paulo César Peregrino PC Kroon Erna Geessien EG

Journal of clinical microbiology 20070207 4

Bovine vaccinia virus outbreaks have been occurring in different regions of Brazil. We report here the time course of natural human infection by vaccinia virus and describe important clinical and epidemiological aspects of this zoonotic infection. The diagnosis of vaccinia virus infection was based on clinical, serological, and molecular procedures. ...[more]

PMID: 17287326

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