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Monkeypox: Clinical Considerations, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Diagnostics

Monkeypox virus (MPXV) has garnered recent attention as outbreaks are continually reported outside historic regions of endemicity in Africa. Consequently, MPXV is becoming routinely included in the differential diagnosis of rash illnesses, requiring clinicians and laboratorians alike to quickly adap...

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Autores principales: Osborn, Lucas J., Villarreal, Diana, Wald-Dickler, Noah, Bard, Jennifer Dien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9674185/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36438980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2022.11.003
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description Monkeypox virus (MPXV) has garnered recent attention as outbreaks are continually reported outside historic regions of endemicity in Africa. Consequently, MPXV is becoming routinely included in the differential diagnosis of rash illnesses, requiring clinicians and laboratorians alike to quickly adapt to a new public health emergency. This review discusses the epidemiology, clinical presentation, and laboratory testing of MPXV in the context of recent outbreaks.
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spelling pubmed-96741852022-11-21 Monkeypox: Clinical Considerations, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Diagnostics Osborn, Lucas J. Villarreal, Diana Wald-Dickler, Noah Bard, Jennifer Dien Clin Microbiol Newsl Article Monkeypox virus (MPXV) has garnered recent attention as outbreaks are continually reported outside historic regions of endemicity in Africa. Consequently, MPXV is becoming routinely included in the differential diagnosis of rash illnesses, requiring clinicians and laboratorians alike to quickly adapt to a new public health emergency. This review discusses the epidemiology, clinical presentation, and laboratory testing of MPXV in the context of recent outbreaks. Elsevier 2022-11-15 2022-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9674185/ /pubmed/36438980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2022.11.003 Text en . Elsevier has created a Monkeypox Information Center (https://www.elsevier.com/connect/monkeypox-information-center) in response to the declared public health emergency of international concern, with free information in English on the monkeypox virus. The Monkeypox Information Center is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its monkeypox related research that is available on the Monkeypox Information Center - including this research content - immediately available in publicly funded repositories, with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the Monkeypox Information Center remains active.
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