| impact of human immunodeficiency virus infection on the epidemiology, clinical features, management, and control of tuberculosis. | after years of decreasing prevalence and increasing hope that tuberculosis, like smallpox, could be eliminated, the disease has resurfaced as a major public health problem in the united states. particularly ominous are the appearance of multiple-drug-resistant strains and their impact on patients and health care workers who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, among whom mortality rates reach 80% 2-3 months postdiagnosis. to respond effectively to this new threat, it is critical t ... | 1992 | 1520806 |
| [small pox--infection, therapy and anaesthesiological management (part 1)]. | smallpox is an acute contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease. it is caused by the variola-virus. smallpox is characterized by a typical disease form with a progressive distinctive skin rash, especially at face, arms and legs. smallpox has a fatality rate of about 30 % and the therapy of infected patients is only symptomatically. as prevention the who initiated worldwide vaccination programs in the year 1967. the last naturally occurring case of smallpox in the world was in somalia in 1 ... | 2003 | 12822115 |
| human infection with a zoonotic orthopoxvirus in the country of georgia. | during 2013, cutaneous lesions developed in two men in the country of georgia after they were exposed to ill cows. the men had never received vaccination against smallpox. tests of lesion material with the use of a quantitative real-time polymerase-chain-reaction assay for non-variola virus orthopoxviruses were positive, and dna sequence analysis implicated a novel orthopoxvirus species. during the ensuing epidemiologic investigation, no additional human cases were identified. however, serologic ... | 2015 | 25806914 |