A photograph revealing smallpox virus pocks on the chorioallantoic membrane of a developing embryonic chick.
Poxviruses are very easy to isolate, and will grow in a variety of cell cultures, producing characteristic hemorrhagic pocks on the chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM).
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