Monkeypox virus in Nigeria: infection biology, epidemiology, and evolution

E Alakunle, U Moens, G Nchinda, MI Okeke - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Monkeypox is a zoonotic disease caused by monkeypox virus (MPXV), which is a member of
orthopoxvirus genus. The reemergence of MPXV in 2017 (at Bayelsa state) after 39 years of …

Human monkeypox: epidemiologic and clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and prevention

E Petersen, A Kantele, M Koopmans… - Infectious Disease …, 2019 - id.theclinics.com
Human monkeypox virus (MPXV) is a double-stranded DNA virus of the Orthopoxvirus
genus of the family Poxviridae. 1–4 Two genetic clades of the monkeypox virus have been …

[HTML][HTML] Increased outbreaks of monkeypox highlight gaps in actual disease burden in Sub-Saharan Africa and in animal reservoirs

N Haider, J Guitian, D Simons, D Asogun… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
We explain research gaps on Monkeypox (MPX) virus epidemiology in endemic countries
and present hypotheses for the recent increase of MPX cases in West Africa as a possible …

Human monkeypox: current state of knowledge and implications for the future

K Brown, PA Leggat - Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2016 - mdpi.com
The zoonosis human monkeypox (MPX) was discovered in 1970, twelve years after the
discovery of monkeypox virus (MPXV) in a Danish laboratory in 1958. Historically confined …

Neurologic complications of smallpox and monkeypox: a review

BJ Billioux, OT Mbaya, J Sejvar, A Nath - JAMA neurology, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Orthopox viruses include smallpox virus, a once feared but now eradicated virus,
as well as monkeypox virus. Monkeypox is an emerging virus initially isolated in 1958 …

[HTML][HTML] Monkeypox—Enhancing public health preparedness for an emerging lethal human zoonotic epidemic threat in the wake of the smallpox post-eradication era

E Petersen, I Abubakar, C Ihekweazu… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The identification of monkeypox in 3 separate patients in the United Kingdom in September
raised media and political attention on an emerging public health threat. Nigeria, whose last …

Monkeypox re-emergence in Africa: a call to expand the concept and practice of One Health

MG Reynolds, JB Doty, AM McCollum… - Expert review of anti …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Monkeypox is a re-emerging viral zoonosis that occurs naturally in heavily
forested regions of West and Central Africa. Inter-human transmission of monkeypox virus …

Is monkeypox another reemerging viral zoonosis with many animal hosts yet to be defined?

DK Bonilla-Aldana, AJ Rodriguez-Morales - Veterinary Quarterly, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Again, the world is witnessing a disease caused by a member of an old group of viruses that
may go into the spillover from animal species to humans (Bezerra-Santos et al. 2021). In …

Evaluation and clinical validation of monkeypox (mpox) virus real-time PCR assays

MG Mills, KB Juergens, JP Gov, CJ McCormick… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background In spring of 2022, an outbreak of monkeypox (mpox) spread worldwide. Here,
we describe performance characteristics of monkeypox virus (MPXV)-specific and pan …

Insights into monkeypox pathophysiology, global prevalence, clinical manifestation and treatments

L Niu, D Liang, Q Ling, J Zhang, Z Li, D Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
On 23rd July 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized the ongoing
monkeypox outbreak as a public medical crisis. Monkeypox virus (MPV), the etiological …