title: Tanapox: first report in a European traveller and identification by PCR.
abstract: Tanapox is a rare pox disease endemic in East Africa. We report the first case of tanapox in a European traveller who contracted the disease in 1999 during a short visit to Tanzania. The diagnosis was made on clinical grounds and confirmed by electron microscopy and a tanapox virus-specific PCR assay.
authors.affiliation: Medical Mission Hospital, Würzburg, Germany. august.stich@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
authors.forename: August
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stich
authors.forename: Hermann
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Köhler
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fleischer
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D011213:Poxviridae Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017193:Skin Diseases, Viral / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014195:Travel; D014412:Tumor Virus Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018158:Yatapoxvirus