title: Concomitant human infections with 2 cowpox virus strains in related cases, France, 2011.
abstract: We investigated 4 related human cases of cowpox virus infection reported in France during 2011. Three patients were infected by the same strain, probably transmitted by imported pet rats, and the fourth patient was infected by another strain. The 2 strains were genetically related to viruses previously isolated from humans with cowpox infection in Europe.
authors.forename: Corinne
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ducournau
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferrier-Rembert
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ferraris
authors.forename: Aurélie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Joffre
authors.forename: Anne-Laure
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Favier
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Flusin
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Van Cauteren
authors.forename: Kaci
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kecir
authors.forename: Brigitte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Auburtin
authors.forename: Serge
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Védy
authors.forename: Maël
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bessaud
authors.forename: Christophe N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Peyrefitte
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002648:Child; D015605:Cowpox / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D015608:Cowpox virus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D016679:Genome, Viral; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D051381:Rats
keywords: France; co-infection; cowpox virus; orthopoxvirus; poxvirus; rat-to-human infections; strains; viruses