“Recreational” drug abuse associated with failure to mount a proper antibody response after a generalised orthopoxvirus infection

From a 2007 article in the journal Infection (https://www.springer.com/journal/15010), researchers discuss a rare case where a 17-year-old male, who survived a generalized cowpox virus infection of unusual severity but surprisingly did not show a proper seroconversion. For access to the full article please visit https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17917699/.

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