ABSTRACT
Mollusca contagiosa (MC) are caused by the imaginatively named molluscum contagiosum virus, the sole member of the molluscipoxvirus genus of the poxvirus family. There are four types of MCV with MCV-1 being the commonest. This fact is only of interest to virologists and epidemiologists, however, since the type of MCV does not appear to affect virulence or treatment.
