Table 2.

Origin and designation of viruses and DNA preparations used in this study

Virus strain	Year	Host	Location	Amplification IT-TaqMan® assay
Yaba-like disease virus, Davies	Unknown	Monkey	USA	Positive
Tanapox virus, TANVWI-38a	1957	Human	Kenya	Positive
Tanapox virus, TANV#81-I-92a	1981	Female, age 32 years	Zaire	Positive
Tanapox virus, TANV#81-I-124a	1981	Female, age 11 years	Zaire	Positive
Tanapox virus, TANV#80-I-231a	1980	Male, age 7 years	Zaire	Positive
Tanapox virus, TANV#80-I-228a	1980	Female, age 39 years	Zaire	Positive
Yaba monkey tumor virusa	1958	Monkey	Nigeria	Negative
PM/99b	1999	Male, age 49 years	Germany	Positive

^aDNA was kindly provided by J.J. Esposito, CDC, Atlanta, USA.

^bScab-derived DNA preparation from a patient (Stich et al., 2002).