Rat-to-Human Transmission of Cowpox Infection

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• Journal Article:
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Personal Author:
  Wolfs, Tom F.W. ; Wagenaar, Jaap A. ; Niesters, Hubert G.M. ; Osterhaus, Albert D.M.E.
• Description:
  We isolated Cowpox virus (CPXV) from the ulcerative eyelid lesions of a 14-year-old girl, who had cared for a clinically ill wild rat that later died. CPXV isolated from the rat (Rattus norvegicus) showed complete homology with the girl's virus. Our case is the first proven rat-to-human transmission of cowpox.
• Subjects:
  • Dispatch
  • Cowpox
  • transmission
  • zoonosis
  • Adolescent
  • Animals
  • Cowpox virus
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Rats
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 8(12):1495-1496.
• ISSN:
  1080-6059 (online) ; 1080-6040 (print)
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights:
  Open Access
• CIO:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
• Division:
  Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID)
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Volume:
  8
• Issue:
  12
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/13944/cdc_13944_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 737.77 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
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