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cowpox Noun a contagious disease of cows, the virus of which is used to make smallpox vaccine
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DNA virus isolates from tissue culture samples used to test GreeneChip performance Virus Genus Sealpoxvirus 1 * Parapoxvirus Pseudocowpox virus ([dagger]) Parapoxvirus Orf virus ([dagger]) Parapoxvirus Cowpox virus ([dagger]) Orthopoxvirus Human herpesvirus ([dagger]) * Simplexvirus Gallid herpesvirus 1 ([dagger]) Iltovirus Human adenovirus E (HAdV-4) ([double dagger]) Mastadenovirus Human adenovirus C (HAdV-5) ([double dagger]) Mastadenovirus * University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. In 1796, an English doctor discovered that patients who had recovered from a cattle disease called cowpox were immune to the more dangerous smallpox. The new vaccine, called MVA85A by researchers, consists of weakened cowpox virus that has been genetically engineered to make a protein normally found on the surface of M. |
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