Publications

multistate outbreak of monkeypox--illinois, indiana, and wisconsin, 2003.	cdc has received reports of patients with a febrile rash illness who had close contact with pet prairie dogs and other animals. the marshfield clinic, marshfield, wisconsin, identified a virus morphologically consistent with a poxvirus by electron microscopy of skin lesion tissue from a patient, lymph node tissue from the patient's pet prairie dog, and isolates of virus from culture of these tissues. additional laboratory testing at cdc indicated that the causative agent is a monkeypox virus, a ...	2003	12803191
multiple diagnostic techniques identify previously vaccinated individuals with protective immunity against monkeypox.	approximately 50% of the us population received smallpox vaccinations before routine immunization ceased in 1972 for civilians and in 1990 for military personnel. several studies have shown long-term immunity after smallpox vaccination, but skepticism remains as to whether this will translate into full protection against the onset of orthopoxvirus-induced disease. the us monkeypox outbreak of 2003 provided the opportunity to examine this issue. using independent and internally validated diagnost ...	2005	16086024
retrospective analysis of monkeypox infection.	serologic cross-reactivity between orthopoxviruses is a substantial barrier to laboratory diagnosis of specific orthopoxvirus infections and epidemiologic characterization of disease outbreaks. historically, time-consuming and labor-intensive strategies such as cross-adsorbed neutralization assays, immunofluorescence assays, and hemagglutination-inhibition assays have been used to identify orthopoxvirus infections. we used cross-adsorption to develop a simple and quantitative postadsorption elis ...	2008	18394277