TY - JOUR
AU1 - Koplan, Jeffrey P.
AU2 - Foster, Stanley O.
AB - THE JOURi'l:AL OF Ii'lFECTIOUS DISEASES. VOL. 140, :'\0. 3 • SEPTEMBER 1979 The last endemic case of smallpox occurred in Organization [5], have quite different case fatality Somalia in October 1977. However, laboratory­ rates: ordi nary-discrete, < 10%; ordinary-semi con­ associated cases of smallpox have not been elimi­ fluent, 25%-50%; ordinary-confluent, 50%-75%; nated. Laboratory-associated outbreaks of small­ flat, >9W!~; hemorrhagic, almost 100<j~; and modi­ pox in England in 1973 and the summer of 1978 fied (altered by previous vaccination), < 10%. resulted in six cases of variola major, three of The classification scheme is based on the type of which ended in death [1-3]. At present, approxi­ lesion and the progression of disease [6]. The mately seven laboratories world-wide, of which underlying host and agent factors that determine two are in the United States (Center for Disease the disease type are also reflected in the varied case fatality rates. There are no obvious host dif­ Control, Atlanta, Ga. and the U.S. Army Medi­ ferences in the patients seen in each of the clinical cal Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Md.), store variola viruses for diag­ types. Nor is there evidence of a difference in nostic and archival purposes. 
TI - Smallpox: Clinical Types, Causes of Death, and Treatment
JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1093/infdis/140.3.440
DA - 1979-09-01
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SP - 440
EP - 441
VL - 140
IS - 3
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ER -