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Cowpox
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Cowpox is rare and used to occur only in Europe and Russia. The infection occurs in small mammals, cats and mice, and can sometimes appear in large animals, such as cattle and elephants. Humans can ... be infected. The majority of cases exhibit vesiculopustular lesions on hands or face. The lesions ulcerate and subsequently develop a black crust. Differentiation from anthrax, mycosis, rickettsial chancre and tularaemia is necessary.
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The cause of Cowpox is an orthopoxvirus. It is transmitted through a bite or skin wound and usually causes skin lesions, although respiratory and ocular signs may occur following viraemia. Cats are usually infected having caught infected rodents but direct transmission from cat to cat, or human to human can occur. In cattle transmission is via milkers hands or teat clusters on automated milking machines.
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Cowpox virus, Brighton Red strain (CPV-BR), vaccinia virus, Western Reserve strain (VV-WR), and recombinant viruses were grown in human osteosarcoma 143B cells. VTF7-3, vaccinia virus expressing the T7 RNA polymerase (23), was provided by B.Moss (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD).
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To date, all isolates examined from domestic cats have been indistinguishable from cowpox virus (see Cowpox). Cowpox or infection with other closely related viruses ... has been recorded in captive Felidae and in other species (eg, elephants, rhinoceros, and anteaters) in various European zoos. However, the relationship of some of these viruses to established species within the genus is not clear. Cowpox apparently does not occur in the USA, although another orthopoxvirus has been isolated from raccoons. It is possible that this virus may also infect other hosts. Cowpox virus is also infectious to humans, and cat-to-human transmission has been recorded.
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