Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 38.1, Problem 8RIA
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To determine: The inherent factors of variola virus and the disease, smallpox that made its eradication 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 very small, firm, deep-seated pustules or blisters that lead to disfiguration and disability in the infected patients.

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