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Not every skin rash in a returning adult male traveler is monkeypox

In May 2022, several European countries including Spain reported cluster of monkeypox cases with no apparent travel to endemic areas. We report a suspected case of monkeypox in Saudi Arabia in a healthy 30-year-old man who returned from Spain and the Netherlands with fever and rash for six days dura...

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Autores principales: Barry, Mazin, Akkielah, Layan, Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A., Memish, Ziad A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9533960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36075509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102432
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Sumario:In May 2022, several European countries including Spain reported cluster of monkeypox cases with no apparent travel to endemic areas. We report a suspected case of monkeypox in Saudi Arabia in a healthy 30-year-old man who returned from Spain and the Netherlands with fever and rash for six days duration during the same time period of the outbreak, he was suspected to have monkeypox but was ultimately diagnosed with chickenpox.