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Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis

Several studies from the current 2022 monkeypox (MPX) outbreak have documented co-infections with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. We present a patient with MPX and secondary syphilis who failed to clear the MPX virus 30 days after illness onset des...

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Autores principales: Opardija, Almira, Sivasubramanian, Geetha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9889299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36742286
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01707
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description Several studies from the current 2022 monkeypox (MPX) outbreak have documented co-infections with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. We present a patient with MPX and secondary syphilis who failed to clear the MPX virus 30 days after illness onset despite a 14-day course of tecovirimat therapy.
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spelling pubmed-98892992023-02-01 Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis Opardija, Almira Sivasubramanian, Geetha IDCases Case Report Several studies from the current 2022 monkeypox (MPX) outbreak have documented co-infections with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. We present a patient with MPX and secondary syphilis who failed to clear the MPX virus 30 days after illness onset despite a 14-day course of tecovirimat therapy. Elsevier 2023-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9889299/ /pubmed/36742286 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01707 Text en © 2023 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Opardija, Almira
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Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis
title Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis
title_full Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis
title_fullStr Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis
title_full_unstemmed Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis
title_short Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis
title_sort delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9889299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36742286
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01707
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