pseudocowpox


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milk·ers' nod·ules

an infection of cows' udders by pseudocowpox virus, a member of the Poxviridae, that is transmitted to the fingers and hands of milkers, producing nodules and lymphangitis, and occasionally widespread papular or papulovesicular eruptions; human infection is transferable to uninfected cows.
Synonym(s): milkers' nodes, paravaccinia, pseudocowpox

pseudocowpox

/pseu·do·cow·pox/ (-kou´poks) paravaccinia.

pseudocowpox

an infectious disease of the skin of teats of cows caused by a paravaccinia virus. Typical lesions commence as erythema, progress to a vesicle, pustule or scab which is shed leaving a horseshoe-shaped ring of small scabs. Persons milking the cows may develop lesions on their hands. Called also milker's nodule.
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Human vaccinia virus and pseudocowpox virus co-infection:clinical description and phylogenetic characterization.
Experimental infection of horses with Vaccinia virus/Infeccao experimental de equinos com o virus Vaccinia
Differential diagnoses include pyoderma, herpetic whitlow, cowpox, pseudocowpox (milker's nodule), cat-scratch disease, anthrax, tularemia, pri-mary inoculation tuberculosis, atypical mycobacteriosis, syphilitic chancre, sporotrichosis, keratoancanthoma, and pyogenic granuloma (5).
Erythema mult-forme as a result of Orf disease
Parapoxviruses cause skin diseases and consists of five species and three tentative species including bovine papular stomatitis virus (BPSV), contagious ecthyma virus or Parapoxvirus ovis (PPVO), parapoxvirus of red deer in New Zealand (PVNZ), pseudocowpox virus (PCPV), and squirrel parapoxvirus (SPPV), as well as the tentative species auzdyk disease virus, chamois contagious ecthyma virus, and sealpox virus.
Chapter 7 Viral zoonoses
Recent isolates of parapoxvirus of Finnish reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) are closely related to bovine pseudocowpox virus.
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Other related viruses include pseudocowpox in cows, and a disease called orf that affects sheep.
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Aislamiento de poxvirus durante el brote de una zoonosis en el estado Zulia, Venezuela
pseudocowpox virus [PCPV]), are considered zoonotic viruses because their infections usually arise from human contact with infected domestic or sylvatic animal species (2).
Detection and molecular characterization of zoonotic poxviruses circulating in the Amazon Region of Colombia, 2014
Human vaccinia virus and pseudocowpox virus co-infection: clinical description and phylogenetic characterization.
Pseudocowpox and papular stomatitis in cattle in the Rondonia state, Brazil/ Pseudovariola e estomatite papular em bovinos no Estado de Rondonia, Brasil
In the genus Parapoxvirus, 4 species are currently recognized: Orf virus (ORFV), bovine papular stomatitis virus (BPSV), pseudocowpox virus (PCPV), and parapoxvirus of red deer in New Zealand (PVNZ) (3).
Infection with possible novel parapoxvirus in horse, Finland, 2013
As lesoes nos tetos e no ubere podem ser confundidas com outras infeccoes viricas de pele, principalmente as causadas pelo virus pseudocowpox e pelo virus da vaccinia (LOBATO et al.
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Other members of this genus--namely, orf virus, pseudocowpox virus, and bovine papular stomatitis virus--commonly infect domestic ruminants and pose a minor occupational hazard to producers of sheep, goat, and cattle.
Sealpox virus in marine mammal rehabilitation facilities, North America, 2007-2009
The genus Parapoxvirus (family Poxviridae, subfamily Chordopoxvirinae) comprises several members: orf virus (OV), bovine papular stomatitis virus (BPSV), pseudocowpox virus (PCPV), and parapox of red deer in New Zealand virus (PVNZ).
Parapoxvirus infections of red deer, Italy

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