title: [Laboratory-confirmed case of human infection with ratpox (cowpox)].
abstract: The present work describes a case of human disease resulting from the bite of a white rat and caused by a biological variant of cowpox virus. The isolates obtained from the sick man and the white rats which had been the source of this infection proved to be identical and did not differ from the biological variants of cowpox virus, isolated earlier from white rats and carnivorous animals of the family Felidae. Thus, the possibility of ratpox (cowpox) transmission from sick rodents to man was established.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Marennnikova
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Zhukova
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Manenkova
authors.forename: N N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Ianova
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology; D004199:Disease Vectors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission; D051381:Rats; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission; D013997:Time Factors; D014615:Vaccinia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary; D014616:Vaccinia virus / Q000302:isolation & purification
vernacular_title: Laboratorno podtverzhdennyĭ sluchaĭ zarazheniia cheloveka ospoĭ krys (ospoĭ korov).