Diagnosis of Imported Monkeypox, Israel, 2018

Diagnosis of Imported Monkeypox, Israel, 2018

We report a case of monkeypox in a man who returned from Nigeria to Israel in 2018. Virus was detected in pustule swabs by transmission electron microscopy and PCR and confirmed by immunofluorescence assay, tissue culture, and ELISA. The West Africa monkeypox outbreak calls for increased awareness b...

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Main Authors: Noam Erez, Hagit Achdout, Elad Milrot, Yuval Schwartz, Yonit Wiener-Well, Nir Paran, Boaz Politi, Hadas Tamir, Tomer Israely, Shay Weiss, Adi Beth-Din, Ohad Shifman, Ofir Israeli, Shmuel Yitzhaki, Shmuel C. Shapira, Sharon Melamed, Eli Schwartz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-05-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Monkeypox
Africa
outbreak
monkeypox virus
orthopoxvirus
transmission electron microscopy
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/5/19-0076_article

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