Genus Orthopoxvirus: Variola virus

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book , Other literature type 01 Jan 2007 English Publisher:Birkhäuser Basel

Authors: Inger K. Damon;

doi: 10.1007/978-3-7643-7557-7_2

Genus Orthopoxvirus: Variola virus

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Abstract

Variola major virus caused the human disease smallpox; interpretations of the historic record indicate that the initial introduction of disease in a naive population had profound effects on its demographics. Smallpox was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1980. This chapter reviews epidemiological, clinical and pathophysiological observations of disease, and review some of the more recent observations on the microbiology of Variola virus

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
United States

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