title: Fatal cowpox virus infection in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) in Germany.
abstract: Cowpox virus (CPXV) was isolated from a fatal outbreak among cotton-top tamarins. Samples from healthy common marmosets in contact were also CPXV genome positive. The CPXV isolated from the cotton-top tamarins exhibited a unique hemagglutinin sequence. Pathogenicity investigations using a Wistar rat model characterized the isolate as low pathogenic.
authors.affiliation: 1 Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) , Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany .
authors.forename: Donata
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kalthoff
authors.forename: Wulf-Iwo
authors.initials: WI
authors.lastname: Bock
authors.forename: Franziska
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hühn
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Beer
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015605:Cowpox / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D015608:Cowpox virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006389:Hemagglutinins, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D008992:Monkey Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D010802:Phylogeny; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012452:Saguinus / Q000821:virology*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000662:veterinary
chemical_list: D006389:Hemagglutinins, Viral