vaccinia

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If I have fulfilled my object, I shall have interested you sufficiently to induce some of you at least to seize and carry forward to a more advanced position the torch of sanitary science PASTEUR'S NEW METHOD OF ATTENUATION The view that vaccinia is attenuated variola is well known, and has been extensively adopted by English physicians.

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  1. noun See cowpox.
  2. noun The usually mild, cutaneous and sometimes systemic reaction in individuals who have been inoculated with smallpox vaccine.

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  • Sera from mice immunized with vGK5 had vaccinia-specific antibody titers ranging from 80-1280 (Geometric Mean Titer = 380) while sera from mice immunized with VACV-WR had PRNT Immune responses following infection by the tail scarification and i.p. routes. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • These confirmations, and new viral-SCRIB interactions we find involving herpes, vaccinia, myxoma, and fibroma viruses (peptides 3-8), suggest that many pathogenic viruses utilize a common mechanism to advantageously target SCRIB-mediated complexes involved in cell polarity and growth control. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • Viruses that MDCK cells are susceptible to include vesicular stomatitis (Indiana strain), vaccinia, coxsackievirus B5, reovirus 2 and 3, adenovirus 4 and 5, vesicular exanthema of swine, and infectious canine hepatitis.
  • PtK2 cells are susceptible to coxsackievirus A9, herpes simplex, vaccinia, and vesicular stomatitis (Ogden strain).
  • Characterizing the role of vaccinia-related kinase 1 (VRK-1) in germline development vrk-1 encodes a conserved, predicted kinase with enriched expression in the proliferating germ line. vrk-1 (ok1181) animals are sterile; they produce sperm but not oocytes, and have few undifferentiated germ nuclei with an abnormally condensed morphology. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. New Latin vaccīnia, from Latin vaccīnus, of cows; see vaccine.

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  1. New Latin, from Latin vaccinus, of or pertaining to a cow: see vaccine.
 

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