Chasing Jenner's vaccine: revisiting cowpox virus classification.

Cowpox virus (CPXV) is described as the source of the first vaccine used to prevent the onset and spread of an infectious disease. It is one of the earliest described members of the genus Orthopoxvirus, which includes the viruses that cause smallpox and monkeypox in humans. Both the historic and cur...

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Main Authors: Darin S Carroll, Ginny L Emerson, Yu Li, Scott Sammons, Victoria Olson, Michael Frace, Yoshinori Nakazawa, Claus Peter Czerny, Morten Tryland, Jolanta Kolodziejek, Norbert Nowotny, Melissa Olsen-Rasmussen, Marina Khristova, Dhwani Govil, Kevin Karem, Inger K Damon, Hermann Meyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3152555?pdf=render