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The Changing Global Epidemiology of Re-emerging Human Monkeypox Virus Infection: A Systematic Review
2022-12-10
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<h4>Background</h4> Human monkeypox (MPXV) virus infection, an emerging zoonotic disease caused by an orthopoxvirus, leads to smallpox-like disease. Human MPXV infection was first reported in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Before April 2022, MPXV cases were endemic and seldom reported outside African regions; but recent global outbreaks of MPXV are concerning. We aimed to investigate the epidemiol...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 484e4822-12e1-5736-b83d-37762df19c70
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.12.09.22283261
