Generalized Vaccinia 2 Days after Smallpox Revaccination
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Generalized Vaccinia 2 Days after Smallpox Revaccination
To the Editor: Hospital and public health personnel are currently receiving smallpox vaccination in a national effort to increase preparedness for a possible deliberate release of smallpox (1). Generalized vaccinia (GV) is a typically self-limited adverse event following vaccination (incidence 23.4–238.2 cases per million primary vaccinees and 1.2–10.8 cases per million revaccinees) (2,3). We r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1080-6040,1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid0912.030592