Monkeypox: Clinical Considerations, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Diagnostics.

Clin Microbiol Newsl

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

Published: November 2022

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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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9674185PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2022.11.003DOI Listing

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