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Variola Minor

Known as: Alastrim, Minor, Variola, Minors, Variola 
A orthopoxvirus that causes a milder clinical syndrome than smallpox.
National Institutes of Health

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1980
1980
Concepts of diffusion theory and a graphic approach to the description of the epidemic flow of contagious disease.
Concepts used to analyze sociological, geographic, and economic processes were adapted to an examination of the diffusion of… 
1976
1976
Variola minor in Bragança Paulista county, 1956. Attack rates in various population units of the two schools including most students with the disease.
Overall attack rates were different for the two schools but were the same when only classes with cases were considered. Of the 49… 
1972
1972
Microelectrophoresis of enzyme and chemically treated viruses and cores of vaccinia, buffalopox, variola and alastrim.
Summary A microelectrophoresis technique has been used to study purified suspensions of buffalopox, vaccinia, variola and… 
Review
1971
Review
1971
Problems and progress in viral chemotherapy
  • R. F. Haff
  • Pure and applied chemistry. Chimie pure et…
  • 1971
  • Corpus ID: 841372
Abstract 
1970
1970
A clinical and laboratory study of smallpox in Brazil. Accuracy of the laboratory diagnosis of smallpox in patients with Brazilian variola minor infection.
Abstract This study was conducted to determine the accuracy of standard diagnostic laboratory tests for smallpox. From 165… 
1967
1967
Spread of variola minor in households.
1963
1963
Epidemic of variola minor in a suburb of São Paulo.
VARIOLA is endemic in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and it occurs, usually on the outskirts of the city, in epidemics of limited… 
1956
1956
Clinical experiences with alastrim.
1954
1954
The concept of alastrim.
1952
1952
Laboratory methods in the diagnosis of alastrim.