variola

Examples

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• Medical researchers study the variola virus to understand how it causes severe skin eruptions.

• Elimination and eradication of smallpox were feasible, in part, because there is no animal reservoir for the variola virus.

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• Historical artifacts tested for variola virus and other viruses.

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• Viability of infectious variola virus in various materials.

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• In the past 10 years, suspected variola crusts have been discovered in the United States on three occasions.

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• No live variola virus, viral DNA, or human DNA were isolated from the specimens.

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• Smallpox is caused by the variola virus (genus Orthopoxvirus).

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• There is concern that if the variola virus is present outside these two laboratories, its accidental or intentional release could cause illness in a population increasingly composed of unvaccinated persons.

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• An experiment was conducted to test the viability of variola virus derived from smallpox lesion crusts found in imported raw cotton (19).

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• Recent exhumation of a corpse from permafrost in Siberia led to sequence characterization of an older strain of variola virus, which shed light on the evolutionary history of the virus (28).

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Synonyms

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smallpox

vsvariola

• Specialized

77 3.9

A very contagious disease that causes fever and many skin sores that leave scars

is the medical or formal term for the same disease

V

variola major

vsvariola

• Specialized

1 9.2

A severe, common form of smallpox that often caused fever, many skin sores, and many deaths

is the broader disease term covering all forms not only the severe one

Compounds

V

variola virus

• Specialized

1 5.9

A very small germ that causes smallpox in people

V

variola major

• Specialized

1 9.2

A severe, common form of smallpox that often caused fever, many skin sores, and many deaths

V

variola major virus

• Specialized

7.7

A very deadly form of smallpox that often causes death

V

variola vaccine

• Specialized

4.4

A vaccine made from cowpox virus that protects people from smallpox and often leaves a small scar

V

variola vaccinia

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8.1

A local infection caused by cowpox that protects against smallpox and leaves a small pitted scar

V

variola minor virus

• Specialized

6.7

A milder form of smallpox that kills about one person in a hundred

V

variola minor

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7.0

A mild type of smallpox that usually causes less severe sickness and few deaths

V

variola vaccina

• Specialized

9.9

An infection from cowpox virus given to people to protect them from smallpox

Surface Forms

Etymology