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Monkeypox (Mpox) and Occupational Exposure [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023
Recently, there has been a significant increase in interest in biological risk factors, which are increasingly perceived as an important problem in occupational medicine. Exposure to harmful biological agents may be associated with the deliberate use of microorganisms in the work process or with unintentional exposure resulting from the presence of ...
Marta Szkiela, Marta Wiszniewska, Agnieszka Lipińska-Ojrzanowska   +2 more
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Mpox (formerly monkeypox): pathogenesis, prevention and treatment [PDF]

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2023
AbstractIn 2022, a global outbreak of Mpox (formerly monkeypox) occurred in various countries across Europe and America and rapidly spread to more than 100 countries and regions. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern due to the rapid spread of the Mpox virus.
Junjie Lu, Hui Xing, Chunhua Wang, Mengjun Tang, Changcheng Wu, Fan Ye, Lijuan Yin, Yang Yang, Wenjie Tan, Liang Shen   +9 more
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Urogenital Manifestations in Mpox (Monkeypox) Infection: A Comprehensive Review of Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Therapeutic Approaches. [PDF]

Infect Drug Resist
Sike He,* Jinge Zhao,* Junru Chen, Jiayu Liang, Xu Hu, Xingming Zhang, Hao Zeng, Guangxi Sun Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed ...
He S, Zhao J, Chen J, Liang J, Hu X, Zhang X, Zeng H, Sun G.   +7 more
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Human mpox (monkeypox): Epidemiologic, pathogenetic and clinical characteristics, and prevention

One Health Bulletin, 2023
Mpox (monkeypox) is a zoonotic disease caused by monkeypox virus, which belongs to the orthopoxvirus genus. Concern has recently been expressed over the appearance of the human monkeypox virus and its severe clinical presentation that resembles smallpox.
Husheng Xiong, Jinlin Tan, Dingmei Zhang
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Congenital Mpox Syndrome (Clade I) in Stillborn Fetus after Placental Infection and Intrauterine Transmission, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2008

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023
We report the autopsy pathology findings of a 21-week stillborn fetus with congenital mpox syndrome that occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008.
David A. Schwartz, Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, Kerry Patterson, John W. Huggins, Phillip R. Pittman   +4 more
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Knowledge of mpox and its determinants among the healthcare personnel in Arabic regions: A multi-country cross-sectional study

New Microbes and New Infections, 2023
Background & aim: The monkeypox virus (MPXV), an Orthopoxvirus family member, is the zoonotic agent that causes mpox (formerly known as monkeypox). The ongoing mpox pandemic has caused cases across continents involving 110 countries. This study aimed
Sarya Swed, Haidara Bohsas, Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary, Hidar Alibrahim, Amine Rakab, Abdulqadir J. Nashwan, Wael Hafez, Noheir A.I. Hassan, Sheikh Shoib, Mohamed Elsayed, Bisher Sawaf, Mhd Kutaiba Albuni, Elias Battikh, Gihan mustafa kamal Mohamed, Adel AlBozom, Ebrahim Shaddad, Sherihan fathey, Mila Nu Nu Htay, Sanjit Sah, Ivan Cherrez-Ojeda, Aroop Mohanty, Bijaya Kumar Padhi, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Aravind Gandhi P, Ranjit Sah   +24 more
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Human monkeypox virus in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2023
Background: The end of smallpox in 1980 and the subsequent stopping of vaccination against smallpox was followed by the emergence of monkeypox (mpox), a viral disease of animal origin, meaning that it is transmitted from animal to human.
Almu’atasim Khamees, Sajeda Awadi, Khayry Al-Shami, Hayat Abu Alkhoun, Sharaf F. Al-Eitan, Ahmad Malek Alsheikh, Ahmad Saeed, Raed M. Al-Zoubi, Mazhar Salim Al Zoubi   +8 more
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Bacterial Pneumonia and Cryptogenic Pleuritis after Probable Monkeypox Virus Infection: A Case Report

Infectious Disease Reports, 2023
A large number of monkeypox (MPOX) cases have been reported in Europe and North America in 2022, and a new outbreak of this disease was declared. We describe a case of a patient with probable monkeypox during the height of this epidemic in Poland.
Hubert Dawid Ciepłucha, Mateusz Bożejko, Paweł Piesiak, Sylwia Serafińska, Bartosz Szetela   +4 more
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Monkeypox (mpox) in immunosuppressed patients

F1000Research, 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed a public health emergency in July 2022 due to the emergence of Mpox (formerly monkeypox) while the globe was still dealing with the COVID-19 epidemic. The characteristics of mpox in immunocompetent individuals are well-characterized, despite difficulties in diagnostics, immunization, and access to ...
Sirwan Khalid Ahmed, Mona Gamal Mohamed, Eman Abdelaziz Dabou, Israa Abuijlan, Deepak Chandran, Nahed A. El-Shall, Hitesh Chopra, Kuldeep Dhama   +7 more
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Mechanisms of immune evasion of monkeypox virus

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
The mpox (disease caused by the monkeypox virus) epidemic in 2022 provides a good opportunity to study the immune response to mpox. Vaccinia virus-infected monocytes could be recognized by monkeypox virus-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, which produce ...
Milad Zandi, Maryam Shafaati, Maryam Shafaati, Fatemeh Hosseini, Fatemeh Hosseini   +4 more
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