Sealpox_virus

Sealpox

Sealpox

Medical condition

Sealpox is a cutaneous (skin) condition caused by a Parapoxvirus, usually affecting seal handlers who have been bitten by infected harbor or grey seals.[1]: 394  First identified in 1969,[2] it wasn't unequivocally proven to be transmissible to humans until 2005,[3] though such transmission had been reported at least as early as 1987.[4] It causes lesions that closely resemble those caused by orf.[3] As many as 2% of seals in marine mammal rehabilitation facilities in North America may have it.[5]

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References

  1. [1]
    James, William D.; Berger, Timothy G.; et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6.
  2. [2]
    Dunn, J. Lawrence; Spotte, Stephen (1974). "Some Clinical Aspects of Seal Pox in Captive Atlantic Harbor Seals". The Journal of Zoo Animal Medicine. 5 (4): 27–30. doi:10.2307/20094269. JSTOR 20094269.
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    Clark C, McIntyre PG, Evans A, McInnes CJ, Lewis-Jones S (April 2005). "Human sealpox resulting from a seal bite: confirmation that sealpox virus is zoonotic". Br. J. Dermatol. 152 (4): 791–3. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.2005.06451.x. PMID 15840117. S2CID 38466772.
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    Hastings, Barkley E.; Lowenstine, Linda J.; Gage, Laurie J.; Munn, Robert J. (September 1989). "An Epizootic of Seal Pox in Pinnipeds at a Rehabilitation Center". Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. 20 (3): 282–290. JSTOR 20094962. Abstract: An epizootic of cutaneous nodules occurred in three species of pinnipeds at the California Marine Mammal Center during the summer of 1986.
  5. [5]
    Roess AA, Levine RS, Barth L, Monroe BP, Carroll DS, Damon IK, Reynolds MG (December 2011). "Sealpox virus in marine mammal rehabilitation facilities, North America, 2007-2009". Emerging Infect. Dis. 17 (12): 2203–8. doi:10.3201/eid1712.101945. PMC 3311194. PMID 22172454.


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