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Attenuated MVA-strain of vaccinia virus has been efficient in the control of enzootic mousepox and in prophylactic vaccination. The virus has been used as a live vaccine for prophylactic and emergency vaccinations as well as for sanitation of populations. More than 100 000 vaccinations were carried out safely.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMousepox is an orthopoxvirus infection of mice that was discovered in laboratory mice in England in 1930. Depending upon mouse genotype, it may produce a severe disease with acute hepatitis and high mortality, a generalized rash in animals that survive longer, or a trivial inapparent infection. It has long been enzootic in breeding stocks of mice in Europe, Japan, and China but not in North America and Australia.
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February 1973
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