| human vaccinia-like virus outbreaks in são paulo and goiás states, brazil: virus detection, isolation and identification. | since october 2001, the adolfo lutz institute has been receiving vesicular fluids and scab specimens of patients from paraíba valley region in the são paulo and minas gerais states and from são patricio valley, in the goiás state. epidemiological data suggested that the outbreaks were caused by cowpox virus or vaccinia virus. most of the patients are dairy milkers that had vesiculo-pustular lesions on the hands, arms, forearms, and some of them, on the face. virus particles with orthopoxvirus mo ... | 2004 | 15654477 |
| Human and animal infections by vaccinia-like viruses in the state of Rio de Janeiro: A novel expanding zoonosis. | Since 1999, vesicular infections caused by Orthopoxvirus in humans and animals, mainly in dairy cattle, have been identified in 20 municipalities in the Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil. This paper describes studies conducted in counties of the northwestern, middle-Paraíba Valley and southern regions of the Rio de Janeiro state where 77 human, 346 bovine and 78 rodent samples were collected over the past ten years. Laboratory investigations using virus isolation, electron microscopy, molecular bio ... | 2011 | 22185829 |