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Descriptor English:   Smallpox 
Descriptor Spanish:   Viruela 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Varíola 
Synonyms English:   Variola
Alastrim
Variola Minor  
Tree Number:   C02.256.743.826
Definition English:   An acute, highly contagious, often fatal infectious disease caused by an orthopoxvirus characterized by a biphasic febrile course and distinctive progressive skin eruptions. Vaccination has succeeded in eradicating smallpox worldwide. (Dorland, 28th ed) 
Indexing Annotation English:   caused by a poxvirus
History Note English:   ALASTRIM was heading 1975-96 (see under SMALLPOX 1975-90); VARIOLA MINOR was see ALASTRIM 1979-96 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
blood cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced classification
congenital complications
diet therapy diagnosis
drug therapy economics
ethnology embryology
enzymology epidemiology
etiology genetics
history immunology
metabolism microbiology
mortality nursing
pathology prevention & control
physiopathology parasitology
psychology radiography
rehabilitation radionuclide imaging
radiotherapy surgery
therapy transmission
urine ultrasonography
veterinary virology
Record Number:   21065 
Unique Identifier:   D012899 

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