Here, there, and everywhere: the wide host range and geographic distribution of zoonotic orthopoxviruses

NIO Silva, JS de Oliveira, EG Kroon, GS Trindade… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
The global emergence of zoonotic viruses, including poxviruses, poses one of the greatest
threats to human and animal health. Forty years after the eradication of smallpox, emerging …

Human monkeypox: an emerging zoonotic disease

S Parker, A Nuara, RML Buller, DA Schultz - Future microbiology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Zoonotic monkeypox virus is maintained in a large number of rodent and, to a lesser extent,
nonhuman primate species in West and central Africa. Although monkeypox virus was …

An increasing danger of zoonotic orthopoxvirus infections

SN Shchelkunov - PLoS pathogens, 2013 - journals.plos.org
On May 8, 1980, the World Health Assembly at its 33rd session solemnly declared that the
world and all its peoples had won freedom from smallpox and recommended ceasing the …

[PDF][PDF] Monkeypox zoonotic associations: insights from laboratory evaluation of animals associated with the multi-state US outbreak

CL Hutson, KN Lee, J Abel, DS Carroll… - The American journal …, 2007 - academia.edu
At the onset of the 2003 US monkeypox outbreak, virologic data were unavailable regarding
which animal species were involved with virus importation and/or subsequent transmission …

Genome of horsepox virus

ER Tulman, G Delhon, CL Afonso, Z Lu, L Zsak… - Journal of …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Here we present the genomic sequence of horsepox virus (HSPV) isolate MNR-76, an
orthopoxvirus (OPV) isolated in 1976 from diseased Mongolian horses. The 212-kbp …

Genome of Alaskapox virus, a novel orthopoxvirus isolated from Alaska

CM Gigante, J Gao, S Tang, AM McCollum, K Wilkins… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Since the eradication of smallpox, there have been increases in poxvirus infections and the
emergence of several novel poxviruses that can infect humans and domestic animals. In …

[HTML][HTML] Orthopox viruses: infections in humans

G Pauli, J Blümel, R Burger, C Drosten… - Transfusion Medicine …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Human smallpox caused by the variola virus (VARV) presented a threat for humans world-
wide for centuries. The successful eradication of smallpox was possible thanks to …

Zoonotic cases of camelpox infection in India

BC Bera, K Shanmugasundaram, S Barua… - Veterinary …, 2011 - Elsevier
This study reports the first conclusive evidence of zoonotic camelpox virus (CMLV) infection
in humans associated with outbreaks in dromedarian camels (Camelus dromedaries) in …

[HTML][HTML] Brazilian vaccinia viruses and their origins

GS Trindade, GL Emerson, DS Carroll… - Emerging infectious …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Although the World Health Organization (WHO) declared global smallpox
eradicated in 1980, concerns over emergent poxvirus infections have increased. Most …

One more piece in the VACV ecological puzzle: could peridomestic rodents be the link between wildlife and bovine vaccinia outbreaks in Brazil?

JS Abrahão, MIM Guedes, GS Trindade, FG Fonseca… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Despite the fact that smallpox eradication was declared by the World Health
Organization (WHO) in 1980, other poxviruses have emerged and re-emerged, with …