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Case Reports
. 2009 Mar;15(3):499-500.
doi: 10.3201/eid1503.080813.

Cat-to-human orthopoxvirus transmission, northeastern Italy

Fabrizio Carletti, Licia Bordi, Concetta Castilletti, Antonino Di Caro, Laura Falasca, Cristiana Gioia, Giuseppe Ippolito, Stefania Zaniratti, Anna Beltrame, Pierluigi Viale, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi
Case Reports

Cat-to-human orthopoxvirus transmission, northeastern Italy

Fabrizio Carletti et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Mar.
No abstract available

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Phylogenetic tree of nucleotide sequences of the complete hemagglutinin open reading frame (930 bp) of orthopoxviruses (OPVs) isolated from the 2 patients described in this report and additional poxviruses available in GenBank (cowpox: AY902279, AY902269, AF375085, AF377883, AF377886, AY902262, AY944028, Z99047, AY366477, AF377877, AF375087; taterapox: AF375093; camelpox: AY902250, DQ853384; horsepox: DQ792504; elephantpox: AF375090; vaccinia: AY902305, X91135, AF375078, AF375077; rabbitpox: AF375119, AF375118, Z99049; variola: AF375129, AF375130, AF375138, AF375142; ectromelia: AY902302, AY902303, AY902306; monkeypox: DQ443504, AF375105, AF375112). Multiple alignment was generated with ClustalW 1.7 software in BioEdit (www.mbio.ncsu.edu/BioEdit/BioEdit.html), and the phylogenetic tree was constructed by using maximum-likelihood and neighbor-joining algorithms implemented in Mega 4.0 software (www.megasoftware.net). Bootstrap values >75 are shown at nodes. The sequences from the patients described in this report form a distinct cluster separate from other OPV sequences. Scale bar indicates genetic distance.
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Comment on

  • Rat-to-elephant-to-human transmission of cowpox virus.
    Kurth A, Wibbelt G, Gerber HP, Petschaelis A, Pauli G, Nitsche A. Kurth A, et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2008 Apr;14(4):670-1. doi: 10.3201/eid1404.070817. Emerg Infect Dis. 2008. PMID: 18394293 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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