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Clinical signs, diagnosis, and case reports of Vaccinia virus infections
Provedor de dados: 55
Autores: Silva,Daniela Carla Medeiros; Moreira-Silva,Eduardo Augusto dos Santos; Gomes,Juliana de Assis Silva; Fonseca,Flávio Guimarães da; Correa-Oliveira,Rodrigo.
Vaccinia virus is responsible for a zoonosis that usually affects cattle and human beings in Brazil. The initial clinical signs of the infection are focal red skin areas, fever, and general symptoms similar to those of a cold. Then, pustules and ulcerated lesions surrounded by edema and erythema follow, as well as local lymphadenopathy that can last for weeks. Cure and healing of the lesions occur over several weeks, leaving a typical scar in the skin of people and animals affected. The infection definitive diagnosis is made through morphological characterization of the virus by use of electron microscopy, followed by PCR for specific viral genes. Since 1963, circulating orthopoxviruses in infectious outbreaks in several regions of Brazil have been...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Poxviridae infections; Virology; Outbreaks; Zoonoses; Vaccinia virus.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702010000200003