| horizontal study of vaccinia virus infections in an endemic area: epidemiologic, phylogenetic and economic aspects. | vaccinia virus (vacv), the etiological agent of bovine vaccinia (bv), is widespread in brazil and present in most of the milk-producing regions. we conducted a horizontal study of bv in bahia, a state of brazil in which the production of milk is increasing. during 2011, human and bovine clinical samples were collected during outbreaks for bv diagnosis, virus isolation and molecular analysis. we collected data for epidemiological inferences. vaccinia virus was detected in 87.7% of the analyzed ou ... | 2015 | 26239343 |