The Detection of Monkeypox in Humans in the Western Hemisphere

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 350, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 342-350

  Reed, Kurt D ^a   Melski, John W ^a   Graham, Mary Beth ^b   Regnery, Russell L ^d   Sotir, Mark J ^e,f   Wegner, Mark V ^f   Kazmierczak, James J ^f   Stratman, Erik J ^a   Li, Yu ^g   Fairley, Janet A ^b   Swain, Geoffrey R ^b,c   Olson, Victoria A ^d   Sargent, Elizabeth K ^d   Kehl, Sue C ^b   Frace, Michael A ^d   Kline, Richard ^d   Foldy, Seth L ^b,c   Davis, Jeffrey P ^f   Damon, Inger K ^d  

^a MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c City of Milwaukee Health Department   (United States)

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

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

^f WISCONSIN DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g Wisconsin Division of Public Health ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MONKEYPOX; NONHUMAN; POXVIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; ZOONOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONKEYPOX; MONKEYPOX VIRUS; MURIDAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SCIURIDAE; SKIN; WISCONSIN; ZOONOSES;

EID: 9144245593     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa032299     Document Type: Article

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