MEDLINE/PubMed Search and Smallpox Information Resources

Smallpox Search

The MEDLINE/PubMed smallpox search retrieves over 20,000 references on smallpox and related diseases from MEDLINE/PubMed from the years 1948 to the present. See details of the search strategy below.

Search Details

The Reference and Web Services Section of the National Library of Medicine created and maintains this smallpox search strategy.
Last updated January 11, 2006

poxviral[tiab] OR
poxvirus OR
poxviruses OR
"pox virus" OR
"pox viruses" OR
"pox vaccine" OR
"pox vaccines" OR
"pox vaccinia" OR
camelpox OR
"camel pox" OR
cowpox OR
cow pox OR
monkeypox OR
monkey pox OR
orthopoxvirus OR
poxviridae[mh:noexp] OR
poxviridae infections[mh:noexp] OR
paravaccinia virus OR
alastrim OR
amaas OR
vaccinia OR
variola OR
variola virus OR
smallpox OR
small pox OR
variola virus OR
smallpox virus OR
"malignant smallpox" OR
"hemorrhagic smallpox" OR
smallpox vaccine OR
variolar[tw] OR
vaccinia virus NOT
("plum pox" OR "prunus")

Smallpox Information Resources

MedlinePlus Smallpox health topic from the National Library of Medicine's Web site for consumer health information
Smallpox and Vaccinia Chapter 6 of Vaccines, 3rd ed., on the NLM's National Center for Biotechnology Information Bookshelf
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) HHS Web page for smallpox information
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) CDC's Web page on smallpox information
National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Smallpox health topic

Last reviewed: 06 May 2009
Last updated: 06 May 2009
First published: 14 December 2005
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