[HTML][HTML] Monkeypox: epidemiology, pathogenesis, treatment and prevention

Y Huang, L Mu, W Wang - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Monkeypox is a zoonotic disease that was once endemic in west and central Africa caused
by monkeypox virus. However, cases recently have been confirmed in many nonendemic …

[HTML][HTML] Monkeypox: a new threat?

D Kmiec, F Kirchhoff - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The global vaccination programme against smallpox led to its successful eradication and
averted millions of deaths. Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is a close relative of the Variola …

Multiple lineages of monkeypox virus detected in the United States, 2021–2022

CM Gigante, B Korber, MH Seabolt, K Wilkins… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease endemic in Central and West Africa. In May 2022,
dozens of non-endemic countries reported hundreds of monkeypox cases, most with no …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Reemergence of human monkeypox and declining population immunity in the context of urbanization, Nigeria, 2017–2020

PY Nguyen, WS Ajisegiri, V Costantino… - Emerging Infectious …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A monkeypox outbreak in Nigeria during 2017–2020 provides an illustrative case study for
emerging zoonoses. We built a statistical model to simulate declining immunity from …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of the epidemiology of human monkeypox outbreaks and implications for outbreak strategy

EM Beer, VB Rao - PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Monkeypox is a vesicular-pustular illness that carries a secondary attack rate in the order of
10% in contacts unvaccinated against smallpox. Case fatality rates range from 1 to 11%, but …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence of monkeypox as the most important orthopoxvirus infection in humans

N Sklenovská, M Van Ranst - Frontiers in public health, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Monkeypox is an emerging zoonotic disease recognized as the most important
orthopoxvirus infection in humans in the smallpox post-eradication era. The clinical …

Monkeypox virus infections in humans

S Elsayed, L Bondy, WP Hanage - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Human monkeypox is a viral zoonosis endemic to West and Central Africa that has recently
generated increased interest and concern on a global scale as an emerging infectious …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Here, there, and everywhere: the wide host range and geographic distribution of zoonotic orthopoxviruses

NIO Silva, JS de Oliveira, EG Kroon, GS Trindade… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
The global emergence of zoonotic viruses, including poxviruses, poses one of the greatest
threats to human and animal health. Forty years after the eradication of smallpox, emerging …