Case report: Human monkeypox in the kivus, a conflict region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 718-721

  McCollum, Andrea M ^a   Nakazawa, Yoshinori ^a   Ndongala, Guy Mutombo ^b   Pukuta, Elisabeth ^c   Karhemere, Stomy ^c   Lushima, Robert Shongo ^d   Ilunga, Benoit Kebela ^d   Kabamba, Joelle ^a   Wilkins, Kimberly ^a   Gao, Jinxin ^a   Li, Yu ^a   Emerson, Ginny ^a   Damon, Inger K ^a   Carroll, Darin S ^a   Reynolds, Mary G ^a   Malekani, Jean ^e   Tamfum, Jean Jacques M ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Division Provinciale de la Sante   (Congo)

^c Institut National de Recherche Bio Medicale   (Congo)

^d Ministegrave re de la Santé Publique   (Congo)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CLOXACILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PROMETHAZINE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARM RASH; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYTHEMA; FACE EDEMA; FACE RASH; FEMALE; FEVER; GENETIC CODE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HERPES ZOSTER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEG RASH; MALE; MONKEYPOX; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; MOUTH RASH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUSTULE; RASH; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN DEFECT; TRUNK RASH; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT; GENETICS; INFANT; PHYLOGENY; WARFARE;

ADULT; CHILD; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MONKEYPOX; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; PHYLOGENY; WARFARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84943574578     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0095     Document Type: Article

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