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Smallpox Eradication: The Vindication of Jenner’s Prophesy
In 1802, Jenner [1] published a short pamphlet in which he made the statement: “…it now becomes too manifest to admit of controversy, that the annihilation of the Small Pox, the most dreadful scourge of the hu...
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Frank MacFarlane Burnet: two personal views
In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Frank MacFarlane Burnet's presentation of the clonal selection theory, two of his former staff reminisce about their interactions with this Nobel prize–winning scientist.
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Poxviridae: The Poxviruses
Diseases: Human monkeypox, vaccinia, cowpox, parapoxvirus infections (orf, milker’s nodules), tanapox, molluscum contagiosum.
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Eradication and Possible Reintroduction of Smallpox
Smallpox was recognized in India and China from the early years of the Christian era [1]. By the tenth century it had spread to Korea, Japan, and probably Indochina to the east of the Eurasian land mass, and t...
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Animal Viruses of Genetic Interest
Early work on the genetics of animal viruses was reviewed, with extensive references, by Fenner and Sambrook (1964), and work done between 1963 and 1969 by Fenner (1970a). A general account of the biology of anim...
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The Possible Use of Temperature-Sensitive Conditional Lethal Mutants for Immunization in Viral Infections
South Africa and Australia were invaded and colonized by-European man less than 200 years ago. In both places the settlers found ample grasslands and savannah-woodlands and an equable Mediterranean type of cli...
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Viruses and the Immune Response
There have been close links between the development of virology and that of immunology for a very long time. One could say that they were born together in 1798, when Edward Jenner introduced vaccination with c...
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Reactivation of Heat-inactivated Poxviruses : a General Phenomenon which includes the Fibroma–Myxoma Virus Transformation of Berry and Dedrick
IN 1936, Berry and Dedrick1 reported that active myxoma virus could be recovered from rabbits injected with mixtures of heat-inactivated myxoma and active fibroma virus. Because their experiments were suggested b...
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Occurrence of Attenuated Strains of Myxoma Virus in Europe
SEVERAL slightly attenuated strains of myxoma virus have been recovered from the field in Australia1; indeed, it is now rather uncommon to recover strains having the same high virulence as the material used for i...
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Contrasting Methods of Transmission of Animal Viruses by Mosquitoes
RECENT investigations1 of the mechanism of the transmission of myxomatosis of rabbits by mosquitoes have brought to our attention certain clear-cut differences between the transmission by mosquitoes of those dise...
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Genetics and immunology
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Mid-dorsal Hair Whorls in Papuan Children
THE occurrence of hair whorls in the mid-dorsal region of man has been recorded in a high percentage of Australian aborigines1,2, in a few Hawaiian fœtuses of mixed ancestry3 and in one European4. Osman-Hill has ...
