Medicine:Sealpox
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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Varidnaviria |
| Kingdom: | Bamfordvirae |
| Phylum: | Nucleocytoviricota |
| Class: | Pokkesviricetes |
| Order: | Chitovirales |
| Family: | Poxviridae |
| Genus: | Parapoxvirus |
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| Virus: | Sealpox virus
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| Specialty | Dermatology |
Sealpox is a cutaneous (skin) condition caused by a Parapoxvirus, usually affecting seal handlers who have been bitten by infected harbor or grey seals.[1]:394 First identified in 1969,[2] it wasn't unequivocally proven to be transmissible to humans until 2005,[3] though such transmission had been reported at least as early as 1987.[4] It causes lesions that closely resemble those caused by orf.[3] As many as 2% of seals in marine mammal rehabilitation facilities in North America may have it.[5]
See also
- Farmyard pox
- Tanapox
- Skin lesion
References
- ↑ James, William D. et al. (2006). Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: clinical Dermatology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-7216-2921-6.
- ↑ Dunn, J. Lawrence; Spotte, Stephen (1974). "Some Clinical Aspects of Seal Pox in Captive Atlantic Harbor Seals". The Journal of Zoo Animal Medicine 5 (4): 27–30. doi:10.2307/20094269.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Human sealpox resulting from a seal bite: confirmation that sealpox virus is zoonotic". Br. J. Dermatol. 152 (4): 791–3. April 2005. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.2005.06451.x. PMID 15840117.
- ↑ Hastings, Barkley E.; Lowenstine, Linda J.; Gage, Laurie J.; Munn, Robert J. (September 1989). "An Epizootic of Seal Pox in Pinnipeds at a Rehabilitation Center". Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 20 (3): 282–290. "Abstract: An epizootic of cutaneous nodules occurred in three species of pinnipeds at the California Marine Mammal Center during the summer of 1986.".
- ↑ "Sealpox virus in marine mammal rehabilitation facilities, North America, 2007-2009". Emerging Infect. Dis. 17 (12): 2203–8. December 2011. doi:10.3201/eid1712.101945. PMID 22172454.
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