Severe disseminated clinical presentation of monkeypox virus infection in an immunosuppressed patient: first death report in Brazil

Since May 2022, the number of monkeypox virus infections has sharply increased in countries where the disease has not been previously endemic. At present, most reports refer to low-severity cases. Herein, we present a severe case of the disease with disseminated skin lesions that progressed to death...

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Autores principales: Menezes, Yargos Rodrigues, de Miranda, Alexandre Braga
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9425919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36037315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0392-2022
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description Since May 2022, the number of monkeypox virus infections has sharply increased in countries where the disease has not been previously endemic. At present, most reports refer to low-severity cases. Herein, we present a severe case of the disease with disseminated skin lesions that progressed to death in an immunosuppressed patient in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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spelling pubmed-94259192022-09-01 Severe disseminated clinical presentation of monkeypox virus infection in an immunosuppressed patient: first death report in Brazil Menezes, Yargos Rodrigues de Miranda, Alexandre Braga Rev Soc Bras Med Trop Case Report Since May 2022, the number of monkeypox virus infections has sharply increased in countries where the disease has not been previously endemic. At present, most reports refer to low-severity cases. Herein, we present a severe case of the disease with disseminated skin lesions that progressed to death in an immunosuppressed patient in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT 2022-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9425919/ /pubmed/36037315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0392-2022 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
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Severe disseminated clinical presentation of monkeypox virus infection in an immunosuppressed patient: first death report in Brazil
title Severe disseminated clinical presentation of monkeypox virus infection in an immunosuppressed patient: first death report in Brazil
title_full Severe disseminated clinical presentation of monkeypox virus infection in an immunosuppressed patient: first death report in Brazil
title_fullStr Severe disseminated clinical presentation of monkeypox virus infection in an immunosuppressed patient: first death report in Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Severe disseminated clinical presentation of monkeypox virus infection in an immunosuppressed patient: first death report in Brazil
title_short Severe disseminated clinical presentation of monkeypox virus infection in an immunosuppressed patient: first death report in Brazil
title_sort severe disseminated clinical presentation of monkeypox virus infection in an immunosuppressed patient: first death report in brazil
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9425919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36037315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0392-2022
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