Human cowpox infection in Sharkia Governorate, Egypt

Amer, Mohamed A.; Elgharib, Ibrahim; Rashed, Abd Elrahman; Farag, Fathi A.; Emara, Mohamed H

doi:10.1046/j.1365-4362.2001.01140.x

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“…During the last decade there has been much discussion on the role of the cat in the distribution of cowpox. Because improvements in hygiene have reduced direct Close this window to return to IVIS human contact with rodents, domestic cats could be acting as active transmitters of these viruses from rodents to humans (Nowotny, 1996, Pfeffer, 1999, Amer, 2001). There is still very little known about t he epidemiology of the cowpox virus.…”

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“…This variation probably underlies the marked seasonal incidence of infection in accidental hosts such as humans and domestic cats , Hazel, 2000. In Egypt, outbreaks of a dermatosis due to cowpox infection are described as occurring during the months of late summer and early autumn (Amer, 2001). In our case, the problems also started in the autumn (September) and continued until the end of October.…”

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confidence: 99%

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COMPARATIVE SEROPREVALENCE OFLEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANSIN COLOMBIAN MAMMALS ALONG A CLIMATIC GRADIENT

Astudillo

Hernandez²,

Stadlin³

et al. 2012

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

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This is the first report of a disseminated mycobacteriosis caused by Mycobacterium kansasii in a reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). A two-year-old female reindeer with a history of lethargy and dyspnea was diagnosed with multiple pulmonary abscesses radiographically. At necropsy the animal had severe diffuse granulomatous pneumonia and pleuritis with severe multifocal granulomatous m yocarditis, lymphadenitis, nephritis, esophagitis, enteritis, and thyroiditis. Impression smears of necrotic debris from granulomas contained numerous acid-fast bacilli. M. kansasii was cultured from pulmonary, renal, hepatic, and lymph node sections. M. kansasii is a slow-growing photochromogenic non-tuberculous mycobacterial species that causes disease in severely immunocompromised individuals (3,4,9). Due to the popularity of reindeer as animals for exhibition in children's zoos, petting zoos, and holiday exhibitions, diagnosis of Mycobacterium kansasii in a reindeer is a significant public health concern.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

COMPARATIVE SEROPREVALENCE OFLEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANSIN COLOMBIAN MAMMALS ALONG A CLIMATIC GRADIENT

Astudillo

Hernandez²,

Stadlin³

et al. 2012

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

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“…This virus has so far been identified only in Europe and the neighbouring West Asian countries but also in Egypt [50,51]. Rodents, such as mice, root voles and rats, serve as reservoir.…”

Section: Cpxvmentioning

confidence: 99%

Orthopox Viruses: Infections in Humans

Pauli¹,

Blümel²,

Bürger³

et al. 2010

Transfus Med Hemother

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“…A generalized eruption due to cowpox infection may develop, rarely, in patients with atopic dermatitis. 26 Rapid identification can be made by an orthopoxvirus-specific PCR. The disease is of historical interest because it was the immunity to smallpox of those who had had cowpox that led Jenner to substitute inoculation with cowpox for the more dangerous procedure of variolation.…”

Section: Cowpoxmentioning

confidence: 99%