A Case of Monkeypox Infection in an Unvaccinated HIV-Positive Male in Rural Alabama

Non-endemic cases of monkeypox infection have been increasingly reported worldwide since early May 2022. Here we report a case of self-limited monkeypox disease in an unvaccinated male who was an HIV patient but did not require treatment with tecovirimat. This is the first reported case of monkeypox...

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Autores principales: Wong, Kristine, Chaudhary, Malvika, Magadia, Raul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9744406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36523743
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31383
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description Non-endemic cases of monkeypox infection have been increasingly reported worldwide since early May 2022. Here we report a case of self-limited monkeypox disease in an unvaccinated male who was an HIV patient but did not require treatment with tecovirimat. This is the first reported case of monkeypox in Calhoun County, Alabama.
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spelling pubmed-97444062022-12-14 A Case of Monkeypox Infection in an Unvaccinated HIV-Positive Male in Rural Alabama Wong, Kristine Chaudhary, Malvika Magadia, Raul Cureus Internal Medicine Non-endemic cases of monkeypox infection have been increasingly reported worldwide since early May 2022. Here we report a case of self-limited monkeypox disease in an unvaccinated male who was an HIV patient but did not require treatment with tecovirimat. This is the first reported case of monkeypox in Calhoun County, Alabama. Cureus 2022-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9744406/ /pubmed/36523743 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31383 Text en Copyright © 2022, Wong et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title A Case of Monkeypox Infection in an Unvaccinated HIV-Positive Male in Rural Alabama
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title_short A Case of Monkeypox Infection in an Unvaccinated HIV-Positive Male in Rural Alabama
title_sort case of monkeypox infection in an unvaccinated hiv-positive male in rural alabama
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9744406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36523743
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.31383
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