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Volume 20, Number 2—February 2014
Letter

Laboratory-acquired Buffalopox Virus Infection, India

Thachamvally Riyesh1Comments to Author , Shanmugasundaram Karuppusamy1, Bidhan C. Bera, Sanjay Barua, Nitin Virmani, Sarita Yadav, Rajesh K. Vaid, Taruna Anand, Manish Bansal, Praveen Malik, Inderjeet Pahuja, and Raj K. Singh
Author affiliations: Veterinary Culture Collection, Hisar, India (T. Riyesh, S. Karuppusamy, B.C. Bera, S. Barua, R.K. Vaid, T. Anand, M. Bansal, P. Malik); National Research Centre on Equines, Hisar (N. Virmani, I. Pahuja, R.K. Singh); Central Institute for Research of Buffaloes, Hisar (S. Yadav)

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Progression of lesion on palm of researcher caused by buffalopox virus infection, India. A) Small vesicle on postinjury day 5. B) Pustule with a central area of necrosis on postinjury day 7. C) Pustule with edema on postinjury day 9. D) Increase in edema on postinjury day 10 (cyanosis is not apparent). E) Lesion after surgical excision on postinjury day 11. F) Lesion on postinjury day 19 (healing was erratic). G) Blackening and thickening around surgical site on postinjury day 30, which then ext

Figure. . Progression of lesion on palm of researcher caused by buffalopox virus infection, India. A) Small vesicle on postinjury day 5. B) Pustule with a central area of necrosis on postinjury day 7. C) Pustule with edema on postinjury day 9. D) Increase in edema on postinjury day 10 (cyanosis is not apparent). E) Lesion after surgical excision on postinjury day 11. F) Lesion on postinjury day 19 (healing was erratic). G) Blackening and thickening around surgical site on postinjury day 30, which then extended to a wider circumference. H) Healed lesion with a black eschar on postinjury day 85.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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