[A woman with a wound on her hand].
A 37-year-old woman came to the Emergency Room. Since 7 days she had a growing wound of the left hand with a necrotic centre. She had increasing erythema and edema of the left arm, and a fever. PCR-investigation revealed the cow pox virus. Cow pox are rare but self-limiting.
Reiner de Graaf Groep, afd. Chirurgie-Traumatologie, Delft.
Klaas A
KA
Hartholt
Geraldine L
GL
Nanninga
Jan W
JW
Duijff
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D015608:Cowpox virus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D057832:Watchful Waiting