Concomitant human infections with 2 cowpox virus strains in related cases, France, 2011

Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Dec;19(12):1996-9. doi: 10.3201/eid1912.130256.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: France; co-infection; cowpox virus; orthopoxvirus; poxvirus; rat-to-human infections; strains; viruses.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Cell Line
  • Child
  • Cowpox / epidemiology*
  • Cowpox / transmission
  • Cowpox virus / classification*
  • Cowpox virus / genetics*
  • Cowpox virus / isolation & purification
  • Female
  • France / epidemiology
  • Genome, Viral
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phylogeny
  • Rats

Associated data

  • GENBANK/KC592396
  • GENBANK/KC592397
  • GENBANK/KC592398
  • GENBANK/KC592399
  • GENBANK/KC592400
  • GENBANK/KC592401
  • GENBANK/KC592402
  • GENBANK/KC592403
  • GENBANK/KC592404
  • GENBANK/KC592405
  • GENBANK/KC592406
  • GENBANK/KC592407
  • GENBANK/KC592408
  • GENBANK/KC592409
  • GENBANK/KC592410
  • GENBANK/KC592411