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A comprehensive review of monkeypox virus and mpox characteristics
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection MicrobiologyMonkeypox virus (MPXV) is the etiological agent of monkeypox (mpox), a zoonotic disease. MPXV is endemic in the forested regions of West and Central Africa, but the virus has recently spread globally, causing outbreaks in multiple non-endemic countries ...
Emmanuel Alakunle +6 more
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Viruses(1) Objectives: Studies on mpox patterns, severity predictors, and public health impacts in Burundi remain limited. Therefore, we aimed to identify the clinical predictors and determinants of mpox complications among hospitalized patients in Bujumbura ...
Liliane Nkengurutse +29 more
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 Mpox or monkeypox virus (MPXV) belongs to the subclass of Poxviridae and has emerged recently as a global threat. With a limited number of anti-viral drugs available for this new virus species, it is challenging to thwart the illness it begets. Therefore, characterizing new drug targets in the virus may prove advantageous to curbing the disease.
Kingshuk Basu +2 more
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Human Vaccines & ImmunotherapeuticsThis study aimed to investigate the knowledge about, attitudes toward, and acceptance and predictors of receiving the mpox vaccine among Chinese cancer patients. Patients were selected using a convenience sampling method.
Jie Ding +6 more
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Mpox, Caused by the MPXV of the Clade IIb Lineage, Goes Global
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 Mpox is a great public health concern worldwide currently; thus, a global primary epidemiological analysis of mpox and a phylogenetic analysis of currently circulating MPXV strains based on open-source data is necessary. A total of 83,419 confirmed cases
Liping Gao +5 more
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Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletinSince the beginning of 2023, the number of people with suspected monkeypox virus (MPXV) infection have sharply increased in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We report near-to-complete MPXV genome sequences derived from six cases from the South
Leandre Murhula Masirika +17 more
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JMIR Public Health and SurveillanceBackgroundThe worldwide human monkeypox (mpox) outbreak in 2022 mainly affected men who have sex with men (MSM). In China, young men who have sex with men (YMSM) were at a potential high risk of mpox infection due to their sexual ...
Sitong Luo +15 more
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Communities at Risk for Mpox and Stigmatizing Policies: A Randomized Survey, Republic of Korea, 2022 [PDF]
, 2023 Objectives. To estimate the impact of communicating to the public that men who have sex with men (MSM) are most at risk for mpox on potential stigmatization and risk perception. Methods.
Choi, Yongjin, Fox, Ashley
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Vaccine: XBackground: Mpox, one of the most serious threats to global health, is now being seen in small but rising numbers in Beijing, China. Our study aimed to investigate healthcare workers’ (HCWs) knowledge of Mpox and to explore reasons associated with their ...
Yuan Yang +13 more
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A Fatal Case of Monkeypox-Associated Encephalitis in a Non–HIV-Infected Patient
Critical Care ExplorationsBACKGROUND:. Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is an infectious disease caused by the mpox virus. Systemic involvement is rare and mpox-associated meningoencephalitis is an uncommon clinical presentation.
Cristina Lopez, MD +14 more
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