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poxvirus

[poks´vi″rus]

any member of a family of morphologically similar and immunologically related DNA viruses, including the disease-causing orthopoxviruses.

pox·vi·rus

(poks'vī-rŭs),

Any virus of the family Poxviridae.

poxvirus

/pox·vi·rus/ (poks´-vi-rus) any virus of the family Poxviridae.

poxvirus

(pŏks′vī′rəs)

n. pl. poxvi·ruses

Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses, including those that cause smallpox, cowpox, and other poxlike diseases in vertebrates.

poxvirus

[poksvī′rəs]

Etymology: ME, pokkes + L, virus, poison

a member of a family of viruses that includes the organisms that cause molluscum contagiosum, smallpox, and vaccinia.

pox·vi·rus

(poks'vī-rŭs)

Any virus of the family Poxviridae.

poxvirus

a virus in the family Poxviridae.

poxvirus officinalis

vaccinia virus.

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Poxvirus infection in an American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) from Northwestern Canada.

Squirrel fibroma virus infection in an Eastern fox squirrel (Sciuris niger) from Sangamon County, Illinois

EL Poxvirus es ovalado y rodeando su superficie se distingue un tubulo en espiral caracteristico de esta familia.

Diagnosis of contagious ecthyma in goats in a quarantine station in Panama/Diagnostico de ectima contagioso en caprinos dentro de una estacion de cuarentena en Panama

A identificacao concomitante de dois diferentes genotipos de poxvirus ja foi relatada em rebanhos bovinos (TRINDADE et al.

Pseudocowpox and papular stomatitis in cattle in the Rondonia state, Brazil/ Pseudovariola e estomatite papular em bovinos no Estado de Rondonia, Brasil

Molluscum contagiosum (MC) is a skin disorder that is caused by molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV1-4), subtype of poxvirus and frequently seen in children.

Giant molluscum contagiosum in an immunocompetent child

The origin of the Belo Horizonte virus remains unknown, since there is no research in the city of Campinas involving poxvirus.

Clinical signs, diagnosis, and case reports of Vaccinia virus infections

Rational strain selection and engineering creates a broad-spectrum, systemically effective oncolytic poxvirus, JX-963.

Poxvirus infections have been present since antiquity with the first evidence of smallpox (the best known poxvirus) found in Egyptian mummies of the 18th Dynasty (1580-1350 B.

Chapter 7 Viral zoonoses

Dryvax was used to create ACAM2000, which is made using a live poxvirus called vaccinia.

First smallpox vaccine since 1931 approved by FDA

The study, conducted under rigorous bio-safety and security conditions at the World Health Organization Collaborating Centers for Smallpox and Other Poxvirus Infections' BSL-4 laboratory located at the CDC in Atlanta, was funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC and the Department of Defense's Defense Threat Reduction Agency under the supervision of Dr.

SIGA Technologies SIGA-246 Blocks Smallpox Virus in CDC Trial

Two control officers will be recruited to stop the advancing hordes, introduced from North America in the 1870s, entering the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway, and infecting native reds with deadly poxvirus.

RED OR DEAD; Grey squirrels killed to save natives

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