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Novel Orthopoxvirus and Lethal Disease in Cat, Italy [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
We report detection and full-genome characterization of a novel orthopoxvirus (OPXV) responsible for a fatal infection in a cat. The virus induced skin lesions histologically characterized by leukocyte infiltration and eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusions. Different PCR approaches were unable to assign the virus to a defined OPXV species.
Gianvito Lanave, Giulia Dowgier, Nicola Decaro, Francesco Albanese, Elisa Brogi, Antonio Parisi, Michele Losurdo, Antonio Lavazza, Vito Martella, Canio Buonavoglia, Gabriella Elia   +10 more
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Monkeypox Virus and Pregnancy. [PDF]

J Med Virol
ABSTRACT Human monkeypox (Mpox) is a zoonotic disease caused by monkeypox virus (MPXV) present in western Africa and exported sporadically worldwide. MPXV causes illness in individuals and pregnant women which constitute a population at risk with obstetrical and fetal complications including miscarriage, stillbirth and premature delivery.
Andrieu J, Mège JL, Mezouar S.
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Orthopoxvirus targets for the development of new antiviral agents [PDF]

Antiviral Research, 2012
Investments in the development of new drugs for orthopoxvirus infections have fostered new avenues of research, provided an improved understanding of orthopoxvirus biology and yielded new therapies that are currently progressing through clinical trials.
Mark N. Prichard, Earl R. Kern
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Detecting, Quantifying, and Isolating Monkeypox Virus in Suspected Cases, Spain

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023
When a monkeypox virus outbreak began in several parts of the world in May 2022, timely and accurate diagnosis became mandatory. In our laboratory, a real-time quantitative PCR was designed and evaluated in several patient samples and compared with ...
Marta E. Álvarez Argüelles, Zulema Pérez Martínez, Susana Rojo Alba, Jose María González Alba, Ana María Fernandez-Verdugo, Isabel Costales González, Garbriel Martín Rodríguez, Jose Antonio Boga Riveiro, Mario Margolles Martins, Santiago Melón García   +9 more
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Global health emergency of monkeypox after COVID-19: A narrative review

Journal of Surgical Specialties and Rural Practice, 2022
Global hit by coronavirus is followed by another public health emergency known as monkeypox (MPX) that is a rare disease and yet has presented with sudden and wide geographic distribution.
Prachi Jain, Manu Rathee, Akanksha Gopal Shetye, S Rajesh Divakar, Sandeep Singh, Sarthak Singh Tomar   +5 more
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Human Monkeypox without Viral Prodrome or Sexual Exposure, California, USA, 2022

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
We report human monkeypox in a man who returned to the United States from the United Kingdom and reported no sexual contact. He had vesicular and pustular skin lesions but no anogenital involvement.
Abraar Karan, Ashley R. Styczynski, ChunHong Huang, Malaya K. Sahoo, Krithika Srinivasan, Benjamin A. Pinsky, Jorge L. Salinas   +6 more
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Gene duplication, gene loss, and recombination events with variola virus shaped the complex evolutionary path of historical American horsepox-based smallpox vaccines

mBio, 2023
Vaccinia virus is the active component of all modern smallpox vaccines after the mid-20th century, but it is uncertain to what extent cowpox, vaccinia, and horsepox viruses were used to produce vaccines before then.
Aline R. V. Souza, Annika Brinkmann, José Esparza, Andreas Nitsche, Clarissa R. Damaso   +4 more
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Novel Orthopoxvirus Infection in an Alaska Resident [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2017
Human infection by orthopoxviruses is being reported with increasing frequency, attributed in part to the cessation of smallpox vaccination and concomitant waning of population-level immunity. In July 2015, a female resident of interior Alaska presented to an urgent care clinic with a dermal lesion consistent with poxvirus infection. Laboratory testing
Zachary R. Werle, Link E. Olson, Joe McLaughlin, Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Christopher H. Hsu, Mary G. Reynolds, Nishi Patel, Whitni Davidson, Nisha Fowler, Andrea M. McCollum, Michael P. Cooper, Ginny L. Emerson, Yu Li, Louisa Castrodale, Panayampalli Subbian Satheshkumar, Jillybeth Burgado, Yuri P. Springer, Matthew R. Mauldin, Jeffrey B. Doty, Jinxin Gao, Kimberly Wilkins   +20 more
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Imported Monkeypox, Singapore

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
In May 2019, we investigated monkeypox in a traveler from Nigeria to Singapore. The public health response included rapid identification of contacts, use of quarantine, and postexposure smallpox vaccination. No secondary cases were identified.
Sarah Ee Fang Yong, Oon Tek Ng, Zheng Jie Marc Ho, Tze Minn Mak, Kalisvar Marimuthu, Shawn Vasoo, Tsin Wen Yeo, Yi Kai Ng, Lin Cui, Zannatul Ferdous, Po Ying Chia, Bryan Jun Wei Aw, Charmaine Malenab Manauis, Constance Khia Ki Low, Guanhao Chan, Xinyi Peh, Poh Lian Lim, Li Ping Angela Chow, Monica Chan, Vernon Jian Ming Lee, Raymond Tzer Pin Lin, Mok Kwee Derrick Heng, Yee Sin Leo   +22 more
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Skin lesions caused by Orthopoxvirus in children

Advances in Dermatology and Allergology, 2020
The global eradication of smallpox and abandonment of mandatory smallpox vaccination has led to an increased proportion of the population who are immunologically naïve to infections caused by Orthopoxviruses (OPV).To present the different courses of OPV infection in children and to highlight the diagnostic difficulties in their differentiation from the
Anna Mania, Ilona Pieczonka-Ruszkowska, Paweł Kemnitz, Magdalena Figlerowicz, Agnieszka Myszkowska-Torz, Katarzyna Mazur-Melewska, Wojciech Służewski, Krystyna Szpura   +7 more
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