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Adventures with poxviruses of vertebrates

2000-04-01

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Because they were the largest of all viruses and could be visualised with a light microscope, the poxviruses were the first viruses to be intensively studied in the laboratory. It was clear from an early date that they caused important diseases of humans and their domestic animals, such as smallpox, cowpox, camelpox, sheeppox, fowlpox and goatpox. This essay recounts some of the early history of their recognition...

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Literature Corpus work: e88e2914-a28d-5f53-833b-35ec4479b0f9
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2000.tb00536.x

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