(n.) Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.
(v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electron microscopical examination showed the presence of typical pox virions in affected epidermal cells.
(2) The NIa-like protein of plum pox virus is a protease with high sequence specificity that is autocatalytically released from the viral polyprotein.
(3) Significant increased risks were associated with a history of herpes zoster infection (odds ratio (OR): 2.3, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.1-4.9), chicken-pox (OR: 2.1, 95% CI: 1.2-4.1) and mumps (OR: 2.0, 95% CI: 1.1-3.8).
(4) Pox virus isolated from psittacine birds was used as a vaccine in trials with love birds (Agapornis roseicollis).
(5) Ecthyma contagiosum, or orf, is an uncommon dermatosis resulting from cutaneous infection with sheep pox virus.
(6) As suggested from the high level of sequence similarity of these viral proteins with the recently described superfamilies of helicase-like proteins (3-5), the NTBM-containing cylindrical inclusion (CI) protein from plum pox virus (PPV), which belongs to the potyvirus group of positive strand RNA viruses, is shown to be able to unwind RNA duplexes.
(7) Pth and Pox induced pulmonary edema by increasing endothelium permeability without changing the hemodynamic parameters at any level of the vascular bed.
(8) We have measured glomerular filtration rate (GFR), extracellular fluid volume (ECF), oxalate distribution volume (OxDV), plasma oxalate concentration (POx.
(9) A total of 45 of the 60 birds in the aviary developed pox lesions around the beaks and eyes.
(10) The immune response of chicks to oral vaccination with HP1-strain of fowl pox virus was studied using intracellular virus alone or a combination of intra and extracellular viruses.
(11) Rhesus monkeys immunized with the soluble fraction elicited virus-neutralizing (1:1,200), complement-fixing (1:16), and hemagglutinating-inhibiting (1:80 to 1:160) antibody titers and were completely protected against monkey pox virus-induced disease.
(12) On the other hand, the binding of GuoPP[CH2]Pox to EF-2 inhibited all of these reactions strongly.
(13) There was no significant difference between immediate prehaemodialysis POx and the POx in the CAPD patients.
(14) A trypsinized preparation of Mycobacterium phlei, non specific stimulator of immunity (NSI), and Sheep Pox Virus (SPV) were inoculated in different groups of sheep to activate B-lymphocytes and induce SPV neutralizing substance(s).
(15) An infection of cattle by transmission of vaccinia virus from milkers vaccinated against small pox is reported.
(16) They refer to an outbreak of sheep-pox at Rackwitz, a place near his practice at Wollstein (Fig.
(17) The compounds also protected mice against lethal mengovirus infection and against the development of experimental pox lesions on the tail.
(18) For a rapid proving of the pig pox virus in the skin of naturally infected pigs, the simple electron microscopic method of negative staining was used.
(19) The POX1 gene encodes a 84-kDa POX protein composed of 748 amino acids.
(20) Several avian viruses (infectious bursal disease virus, Newcastle disease virus, Canary pox virus, and reovirus) formed plaques under agar.
Smallpox
Definition:
(n.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.
Example Sentences:
(1) A direct fluorescent-antibody test for smallpox is described which utilizes a conjugated antivaccinia serum that was purified by diethylaminoethyl fractionation.
(2) A notable example is percutaneous smallpox vaccination together with the intradermal injection of BCG.
(3) A young girl, vaccinated against smallpox 6 years before suffered from a persistent vaccinia virus infection and a congenital skin disease, i.e.
(4) This would prove the early reactions to be allergic responses of organisms sensitized against smallpox vaccine, capable of stimulating antibody formation.
(5) On the basis of the data obtained PHAT could be recommended as a test for the assessment of the immunological efficacy of the smallpox vaccinations.
(6) Vaccinia-specific antibodies were found in 4 human sera collected 6 weeks after smallpox vaccination.The serological results provide the first laboratory evidence of a monkeypox reservoir in wild monkeys.
(7) The last case of virulent smallpox occurred in Bangladesh in October 1975, and of mild smallpox in Ethiopia in August 1976.
(8) Since May 1980 when the 33rd World Health Assembly declared the global eradication of smallpox, WHO has been developing a comprehensive system of surveillance aimed at maintaining the world permanently free from this disease.
(9) Smallpox victims were estimated at 10-15 million each year, of whom 1.5-2.0 million died.
(10) Five instances of side-effects after oral smallpox immunisation (out of 2568 persons orally immunised) are reported.
(11) In 1796, Edward Jenner developed the first effective vaccine against an infectious disease by using cowpox virus to prevent subsequent infection with smallpox.
(12) Subcutaneous sensitization of guinea pigs with -vaccine, and also an intracardiac injection of smallpox or measles vaccine induced production of brain autoantibodies, whereas subcutaneous or intradermal immunization of the animals with liver viral vaccines was not accompanied by the formation of autoantibodies and development of the pathological processes in the nervous system tissue.
(13) If this is verified, we may say farewell to routine smallpox vaccination.
(14) Useful lessons may be drawn from the successful global Smallpox Eradication Program and applied to the current campaign in the areas of surveillance, strategy, operations, and evaluation.
(15) With this immunization schedule it was possible to obtain smallpox antisera containing precipitins (in a titer of 1:32), hemagglutinins (1:1280), and antibody detectable by the indirect immunofluorescence technique (1:2560).
(16) In sequential serum specimens, the radioimmunoassay test indicated fourfold or greater increases in all of the smallpox patients and in six of eight vaccinated persons.
(17) The obstetric outcome (abortions, stillbirths, prematurity, mature births, and congenital abnormalities) in a group of 1522 consecutive pregnant patients who had smallpox vaccinations during recent pregnancies was compared to that in a similar control group of 2024 consecutive pregnant patients who did not receive any antenatal vaccination.
(18) In this pilot study clinical, electrocardiographic, chemical and immunological findings have been studied during a six weeks' follow-up after routine immunisation (mumps, polio, tetanus, smallpox, diphtheria and type A meningococcal disease) among 234 Finnish conscripts at the beginning of their military service.
(19) The history of smallpox is recounted through the eyes of those who bore witness to its terrors.
(20) All were tuberculin-tested and all had received primary smallpox vaccination but had not been vaccinated with BCG.