TY - JOUR AU - Ducournau, Corinne AU - Ferrier-Rembert, Audrey AU - Ferraris, Olivier AU - Joffre, Aurélie AU - Favier, Anne-Laure AU - Flusin, Olivier AU - Van Cauteren, Dieter AU - Kecir, Kaci AU - Auburtin, Brigitte AU - Védy, Serge AU - Bessaud, Maël AU - Peyrefitte, Christophe T1 - Concomitant Human Infections with 2 Cowpox Virus Strains in Related Cases, France, 2011 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2013 VL - 19 IS - 12 SP - 1996 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We investigated 4 related human cases of cowpox virus infection reported in France during 2011. Three patients were infected by the same strain, probably transmitted by imported pet rats, and the fourth patient was infected by another strain. The 2 strains were genetically related to viruses previously isolated from humans with cowpox infection in Europe. KW - cowpox virus KW - orthopoxvirus KW - rat-to-human infections KW - poxvirus KW - viruses KW - France KW - strains KW - co-infection DO - 10.3201/eid1912.130256 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/12/13-0256_article ER - End of Reference