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标题：Occupationally-acquired smallpox in an IgM-deficient health worker
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作者：L. B. Brilliant ; James H. Nakano ; Takashi Kitamura 等
期刊名称：Bulletin of the World Health Organization
印刷版ISSN：0042-9686
出版年度：1981
卷号：59
期号：1
页码：99-106
语种：English
出版社：World Health Organisation
摘要：A 21-year-old Indian who worked as a vaccinator in the smallpox programme developed an atypical case of variola major despite several previous, successful vaccinations. The clinical course of the disease was unusual, as there were two distinctly separate ”crops” of smallpox. The disease began less than one month after a successful vaccination, which therefore gave the briefest period of protection recorded for this reliable immunization. The patient was found to have a virtually complete IgM deficiency with normal levels of circulating antibody against orthopox virus. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (2.0M), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106