Zoonotic vaccinia virus infection in Brazil: clinical description and implications for health professionals.
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.
de Souza Trindade
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Laboratório de Vírus, Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Caixa Postal 486, CEP 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
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
D000328:Adult; D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology; D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood; D001483:Base Sequence; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009500:Neutralization Tests; D010802:Phylogeny; D017385:Sequence Homology; D014615:Vaccinia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary / Q000821:virology; D014616:Vaccinia virus / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D015047:Zoonoses
D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D004279:DNA, Viral; D014764:Viral Proteins