Vaccinia is an infectious disease caused by vaccinia virus, an orthopoxvirus in the Poxviridae family of dsDNA viruses. Vaccinia virus has been used as a smallpox vaccine. Several serious complications such as encephalitis, progressive vaccinia, eczema vaccinatum, and generalized vaccinia and disseminated vaccinia have been reported.
Category
Infectious disease
Brite
Infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by dsDNA viruses
H02352 Vaccinia
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Viral infections characterised by skin or mucous membrane lesions
Infections due to poxvirus
1E73 Vaccinia
H02352 Vaccinia
Pathogen
Vaccinia virus [GN:T40360]
Drug
Vaccinia immune globulin [DR:D06271]
Comment
After smallpox was declared eradicated, the vaccination was discontinued, favoring a new contingent of susceptible individuals to orthopoxviruses.
Other DBs
ICD-11:
1E73
MeSH:
D014615
Reference
PMID:12742570
Authors
Bray M
Title
Pathogenesis and potential antiviral therapy of complications of smallpox vaccination.
Journal
Antiviral Res 58:101-14 (2003) DOI:10.1016/s0166-3542(03)00008-1
Reference
PMID:12911836
Authors
Aragon TJ, Ulrich S, Fernyak S, Rutherford GW
Title
Risks of serious complications and death from smallpox vaccination: a systematic review of the United States experience, 1963-1968.
Journal
BMC Public Health 3:26 (2003) DOI:10.1186/1471-2458-3-26
Reference
PMID:19828265
Authors
Essbauer S, Pfeffer M, Meyer H
Title
Zoonotic poxviruses.
Journal
Vet Microbiol 140:229-36 (2010) DOI:10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.08.026
Reference
PMID:29140260
Authors
Oliveira JS, Figueiredo PO, Costa GB, Assis FL, Drumond BP, da Fonseca FG, Nogueira ML, Kroon EG, Trindade GS
Title
Vaccinia Virus Natural Infections in Brazil: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Journal
Viruses 9:E340 (2017) DOI:10.3390/v9110340
Reference
PMID:21854314
Authors
Walsh SR, Dolin R
Title
Vaccinia viruses: vaccines against smallpox and vectors against infectious diseases and tumors.