Detection of Vaccinia Virus in Dairy Cattle Serum Samples from 2009, Uruguay
Ana Paula Moreira Franco-Luiz, Danilo Bretas Oliveira, Alexandre Fagundes Pereira, Mirela Cristina Soares Gasparini, Cláudio Antônio Bonjardim, Paulo César Peregrino Ferreira, Giliane de Souza Trindade, Rodrigo Puentes, Agustin Furtado, Jônatas Santos Abrahão, and Maurício Teixeira Lima
Author affiliations: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (A.P.M. Franco-Luiz, D.B. Oliveira, A. Fagundes Pereira, M.C.S. Gasparini, C.A. Bonjardim, P.C.P. Ferreira, G. de Souza Trindade, J. Santos Abrahão, E.G. Kroon); Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, Brazil (D.B. Oliveira); Universidad de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay Facultad de Veterinaria, Montevideo, Uruguay (R. Puentes, A. Furtado)
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Figure 1. Chronologic representation of vaccinia virus (VACV) emergence and reemergence in South America. Dark gray indicates countries in which VACV outbreaks have not been officially described; light gray indicates states in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay where VACV outbreaks were detected by serologic or molecular testing; white indicates states in Brazil and Argentina where VACV has not been detected; black dots indicate areas where VACV is reemerging.
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