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What a Difference a Gene Makes: Identification of Virulence Factors of Cowpox Virus.
Journal of virology - 6 Jan 2020
Tamošiūnaitė Aistė, Weber Saskia, Schippers Timo, Franke Annika, Xu Zhiyong, Jenckel Maria, Pfaff Florian, Hoffmann Donata, Newell Maegan, Tischer B Karsten, Beer Martin, Osterrieder Nikolaus
Abstract excerpt
Cowpox virus (CPXV) is a zoonotic orthopoxvirus (OPV) that causes spillover infections from its animal hosts to humans. In 2009, several human CPXV cases occurred through transmission from pet rats. An isolate from a diseased rat, RatPox09, exhibited significantly increased virulence in Wistar rats and caused high mortality compared to that caused by the mildly virulent laboratory strain Brighton Red (BR). The...
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