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Smallpox virus plaque phenotypes: genetic, geographical and case fatality relationships.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Apr 2009
Olson Victoria A, Karem Kevin L, Smith Scott K, Hughes Christine M, Damon Inger K
Abstract excerpt
Smallpox (infection with Orthopoxvirus variola) remains a feared illness more than 25 years after its eradication. Historically, case-fatality rates (CFRs) varied between outbreaks (<1 to approximately 40 %), the reasons for which are incompletely understood. The extracellular enveloped virus (EEV) form of orthopoxvirus progeny is hypothesized to disseminate infection. Investigations with the closely related...
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