Prescott's Microbiology
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Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 38.1, Problem 3MI
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To determine: The biological and clinical features that made the eradication of smallpox possible.
Introduction: Smallpox is a contagious disease that existed for about 300 years and was finally eradicated in 1979. The disease was caused by small variola virus that caused the development of the very small, firm, deep-seated pustules or blisters that lead to the disfiguration and disability in the infected patients.
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