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Tanapox: first report in a European traveller and identification by PCR.

Author(s): August Stich, Hermann Meyer, Bernd Köhler, Klaus Fleischer

Publication date: 2016-01-11

Journal: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Keywords: Europe, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymerase Chain Reaction, methods, Poxviridae Infections, diagnosis, Skin Diseases, Viral, Travel, Tumor Virus Infections, Yatapoxvirus

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Tanapox is a rare pox disease endemic in East Africa. We report the first case of tanapox in a European traveller who contracted the disease in 1999 during a short visit to Tanzania. The diagnosis was made on clinical grounds and confirmed by electron microscopy and a tanapox virus-specific PCR assay.

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PubMed ID:: 12055809

DOI:: 10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90295-6

ScienceOpen disciplines: Chemistry

Keywords: Europe,Humans,Male,Middle Aged,Polymerase Chain Reaction,methods,Poxviridae Infections,diagnosis,Skin Diseases, Viral,Travel,Tumor Virus Infections,Yatapoxvirus

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Keywords: Europe, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymerase Chain Reaction, methods, Poxviridae Infections, diagnosis, Skin Diseases, Viral, Travel, Tumor Virus Infections, Yatapoxvirus

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