Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2013)

Concomitant Human Infections with 2 Cowpox Virus Strains in Related Cases, France, 2011

  • Corinne Ducournau,
  • Audrey Ferrier-Rembert,
  • Olivier Ferraris,
  • Aurélie Joffre,
  • Anne-Laure Favier,
  • Olivier Flusin,
  • Dieter Van Cauteren,
  • Kaci Kecir,
  • Brigitte Auburtin,
  • Serge Védy,
  • Maël Bessaud,
  • Christophe N. Peyrefitte

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1912.130256
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 12
pp. 1996 – 1999

Abstract

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We investigated 4 related human cases of cowpox virus infection reported in France during 2011. Three patients were infected by the same strain, probably transmitted by imported pet rats, and the fourth patient was infected by another strain. The 2 strains were genetically related to viruses previously isolated from humans with cowpox infection in Europe.

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