RT Book, Section
A1 Piggott, Caroline
A1 Friedlander, Sheila Fallon
A1 Tom, Wynnis
A2 Goldsmith, Lowell A.
A2 Katz, Stephen I.
A2 Gilchrest, Barbara A.
A2 Paller, Amy S.
A2 Leffell, David J.
A2 Wolff, Klaus
SR Print(0)
ID 56088919
T1 Chapter 195. Poxvirus Infections
T2 Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine, 8e
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-166904-7
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56088919
RD 2024/04/18
AB |PrintPoxviruses  at  a  GlancePoxviruses  are  the  largest  animal  viruses;  they  can  cause  disease  of  varying  severity  in  humans.Smallpox  is  the  only  poxvirus  for  which  humans  are  the  sole  reservoir,  which  allowed  its  eradication.The  smallpox  vaccine  virus,  vaccinia,  has  its  own  adverse  effects.Monkeypox  is  a  zoonotic  infection  endemic  in  Africa,  but  it  has  recently  appeared  in  the  Western  Hemisphere.Milker's  nodule  and  orf  mainly  cause  localized  cutaneous  infections.Molluscum  contagiosum  is  generally  a  benign  cutaneous  disease  most  frequently  seen  in  children  and  immunocompromised  individuals.Histopathologic  features  of  poxviral  cutaneous  lesions  include  the  presence  of  intracytoplasmic  eosinophilic  inclusion  bodies.