Monkeypox without exanthem [24]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 356, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 2112-2114

  Lewis, Matthew W ^a   Graham, Mary Beth ^b   Hammarlund, Erika ^a   Hanifin, Jon ^a   Slifka, Mark K ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LETTER; MALE; MONKEYPOX; ORTHOPOXVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SMALLPOX; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VACCINATION; VIRAL SKIN DISEASE; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ZOONOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY;

ADULT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONKEYPOX; SMALLPOX;

EID: 34249024905     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc062788     Document Type: Letter

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