期刊名称:Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN:1232-1966
电子版ISSN:1898-2263
出版年度:2015
卷号:22
期号:3
页码:456-458
DOI:10.5604/12321966.1167713
出版社:Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要:Cowpox in humans is a rare zoonotic disease; its recognition is therefore problematic due to the lack of clinical experience.The differential diagnosis includes other poxvirus infections and also infections with herpesviruses or selected bacteria. Theclinical course can be complicated and the improvement may take weeks. Late diagnosis is one of the causes of unnecessarycombined antibiotic therapy or surgical intervention. A case of cowpox after a cat scratch in a 15-year-old girl is presented,with a summary of the available clinical data on cowpox infections