Summary
Poxviruses isolated from captive carnivores in Russia (Moscow virus) and elephants in Germany (elephant virus) were very closely-related to cowpox virus. Immunological analysis with absorbed sera separated elephant virus but not cowpox and Moscow virus, whereas polypeptide analysis separated cowpox but not elephant and Moscow virus. A combination of biological tests separated all three. The epidemiological implications are briefly reviewed.
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Baxby, D., Shackleton, W.B., Wheeler, J. et al. Comparison of cowpox-like viruses isolated from European zoos. Archives of Virology 61, 337–340 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01315021
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