variola


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Synonyms for variola

a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

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CPXV, cowpox virus; MPXV, monkeypox virus; VACV, vaccinia virus; VARV, variola virus.
They have already done it with horsepox, which is not very different from variola virus.
Cowpox virus, a cousin of variola virus, causes a mild smallpox-like disease in cows.
A partir da analise dos artigos selecionados, foi possivel identificar que existe, de fato, uma efetividade relacionada ao processo de vacinacao, sendo ratificada pela erradicacao de doencas como, variola, poliomielite e febre amarela, bem como, o controle de algumas outras doencas como o sarampo, tetano neonatal e tuberculose (3).
On June 25, 2015, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended routine vaccination with live smallpox (vaccinia) vaccine (ACAM2000) for laboratory personnel who directly handle 1) cultures or 2) animals contaminated or infected with replication-competent vaccinia virus, recombinant vaccinia viruses derived from replicationcompetent vaccinia strains (i.e., those that are capable of causing clinical infection and producing infectious virus in humans), or other orthopoxviruses that infect humans (e.g., monkeypox, cowpox, and variola) (recommendation category: A, evidence type 2 [Box]).
In June 2015, ACIP, having reviewed recent clinical data, reaffirmed the CDC's standing recommendations that the live vaccinia virus smallpox vaccine ACAM2000 (which replaced Dryvax in 2008) be administered routinely to those with occupational exposure to orthopox viruses (eg, laboratory personnel who work with monkeypox, variola, or smallpox viruses).
The early chapters of the book narrate what we know about BW during the first fifty years of the Soviet Union, including circumstantial evidence that smallpox (variola) had been weaponized before 1970, yet over three-quarters of the book chronicle with astonishing texture the erection of the massive Soviet program, which ironically mostly happened after the signing of the BWC.
O resultado (segundo diz Polibio) sao historias de uns e outros, como uma donzela formosa na feicao, mas que nao tem olhos ou tendo-os formosos, tem buracos de variola no rosto, ou nos demais locais e defeituosa.
Other freeloading species of fishes that have been observed following these two goatfishes include groupers of the genera Cephalopholis, Epinephelus, and Variola, larger species of the labrid genera Halichoeres and Thalassoma, turkeyfishes (Pterois spp.), Cornetfish (Fistularia commersonii), and Trumpetfish (Aulostomus chinensis).