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Tanapox: first report in a European traveller and identification by PCR
August Stich1, Hermann Meyer, Bernd Köhler
1Medical Mission Hospital, Würzburg, Germany. august.stich@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
Abstract:
Tanapox is a rare pox disease endemic in East Africa. We report the first case of tanapox in a European traveller who contracted the disease in 1999 during a short visit to Tanzania. The diagnosis was made on clinical grounds and confirmed by electron microscopy and a tanapox virus-specific PCR assay.