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About the Authors:
Darin S. Carroll
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliation: Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Ginny L. Emerson
Affiliation: Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Yu Li
Affiliation: Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Scott Sammons
Affiliation: Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Victoria Olson
Affiliation: Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Michael Frace
Affiliation: Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Yoshinori Nakazawa
Affiliations Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America
Claus Peter Czerny
Affiliation: Division of Microbiology and Animal Hygiene, Department of Animal Sciences, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
Morten Tryland
Affiliations Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Section of Arctic Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Tromsø, Norway, Genøk, Center for Biosafety, The Science Park, Tromsø, Norway
Jolanta Kolodziejek
Affiliation: Zoonoses and Emerging Infections Group, Clinical Virology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Norbert Nowotny
Affiliations Zoonoses and Emerging Infections Group, Clinical Virology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Melissa Olsen-Rasmussen
Affiliation: Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Marina Khristova
Affiliation: Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Dhwani Govil
Affiliation: Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Kevin Karem
Affiliation: Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Inger K. Damon
Affiliation: Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Hermann Meyer
Affiliation: Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
Introduction
Cowpox virus (CPXV) is one of the earliest described...