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ID#: 10478
Caption:
This 1968 image depicted the desquamation, or sloughing of the skin, in a smallpox patient, who having survived smallpox, had subsequently contracted measles.
High Resolution: Click here for hi-resolution image (6.64 MB)
Content Provider(s): CDC/ Dr. John Noble, Jr.
Creation Date: 1968
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Chemicals and Drugs
Immunologic and Biological Factors
Biological Products
Vaccines
Vaccines, Combined
Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
Viral Vaccines
Measles Vaccine
Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
Mumps Vaccine
Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
Rubella Vaccine
Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
Smallpox Vaccine
Diseases
Virus Diseases
DNA Virus Infections
Poxviridae Infections
Smallpox
RNA Virus Infections
Mononegavirales Infections
Paramyxoviridae Infections
Morbillivirus Infections
Measles
Organisms
Viruses
DNA Viruses
Poxviridae
Chordopoxvirinae
Orthopoxvirus
Variola virus
RNA Viruses
Mononegavirales
Paramyxoviridae
Paramyxovirinae
Morbillivirus
Measles virus
Vertebrate Viruses
DNA Viruses
Poxviridae
Chordopoxvirinae
Orthopoxvirus
Variola virus
RNA Viruses
Mononegavirales
Paramyxoviridae
Paramyxovirinae
Morbillivirus
Measles virus
Copyright Restrictions: None - This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions.
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