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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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Potential Risk of Local Transmission of Mpox in Nepal: An Emerging Public Health Concern. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Monkeypox (Mpox) is a zoonotic disease caused by the monkeypox virus, a double‐stranded DNA virus of the Orthopoxvirus genus with two major clades (Clades I and II), with Clade IIb responsible for most global cases reported during 2022–2024.
Shah Y, Singh AK, Acharya BK, Lamichhane M, Dhami RS, Pandey K, Dumre SP, Morita K, Dev Pandey B, Dhimal M.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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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Orthopoxvirus-Specific T Cell Responses in Convalescent MPOX Patients.

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Orthopoxvirus-specific T cell responses were analyzed in 10 patients who had recovered from MPOX including 7 people with HIV (PWH). Eight participants had detectable virus-specific T cell responses, including a PWH who was not on antiretroviral therapy ...
Caroline C. Traut, Joyce L. Jones, R. Sanders, Laura R Clark, Matthew M. Hamill, G. Stavrakis, Joel Sop, Tyler P. Beckey, S. Keller, Elizabeth A. Gilliams, W. Cochran, O. Laeyendecker, Y. Manabe, H. Mostafa, David L. Thomas, B. Hansoti, K. Gebo, J. Blankson   +17 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Clinical Features Present, Past & Future Prospective of Monkey Pox: A Orthopoxvirus

Journal for Research in Applied Sciences and Biotechnology, 2023
Some issues regarding the potential spread of monkeypox have arisen just as the international world is beginning to recover from the initial alarm that was caused by the probable spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
S. Shukla, Naveen Rawat, Sarthak Rana, Vinod Rana, Chavi Mittal, Roshan Kumar, Prachi Sood   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An orthopoxvirus-based vaccine reduces virus excretion after MERS-CoV infection in dromedary camels [PDF]

Science, 2015
Bart L. Haagmans, Judith M. A. van den Brand, V. Stalin Raj, Asisa Volz, Peter Wohlsein, Saskia L. Smits, Debby Schipper, Theo M. Bestebroer, Nisreen M.A. Okba, Robert Fux, Albert Bensaïd, David Solanes Foz, Thijs Kuiken, Wolfgang Baumgärtner, Joaquím Segalés, Gerd Sutter, Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus   +16 more
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Orthopoxvirus Zoonoses—Do We Still Remember and Are Ready to Fight?

Pathogens, 2023
The eradication of smallpox was an enormous achievement due to the global vaccination program launched by World Health Organization. The cessation of the vaccination program led to steadily declining herd immunity against smallpox, causing a health ...
M. Gieryńska, L. Szulc-Dąbrowska, J. Struzik, K. Gregorczyk-Zboroch, M. Mielcarska, F. Toka, A. Schollenberger, Zuzanna Biernacka   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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The French Armed Forces Virology Unit: A Chronological Record of Ongoing Research on Orthopoxvirus

Viruses, 2017
Since the official declaration of smallpox eradication in 1980, the general population vaccination has ceased worldwide. Therefore, people under 40 year old are generally not vaccinated against smallpox and have no cross protection against orthopoxvirus ...
Déborah Delaune, Frédéric Iseni, Audrey Ferrier-Rembert, Christophe N. Peyrefitte, Olivier Ferraris   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source