2007
DOI: 10.3201/eid1306.061540
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Endemic Human Monkeypox, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2001–2004

Abstract: By analyzing vesicle fluids and crusted scabs from 136 persons with suspected monkeypox, we identified 51 cases of monkeypox by PCR, sequenced the hemagglutinin gene, and confirmed 94% of cases by virus culture. PCR demonstrated chickenpox in 61 patients. Coinfection with both viruses was found in 1 additional patient.

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“…3 Within DRC, many cases are reported from the central and northern provinces, but very few cases are reported and investigated from the east, specifically in North and South Kivu. 4 Previously, human MPX was confirmed from the "Kivu region" in Kibwe (Punia health zone) in 1982. Punia is located just west of North Kivu in what is now Maniema Province.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…3 Within DRC, many cases are reported from the central and northern provinces, but very few cases are reported and investigated from the east, specifically in North and South Kivu. 4 Previously, human MPX was confirmed from the "Kivu region" in Kibwe (Punia health zone) in 1982. Punia is located just west of North Kivu in what is now Maniema Province.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The cessation of smallpox vaccinations has apparently also increased the amount of other human OPV cases, especially cowpox and monkeypox cases in Europe and Africa, respectively [Baxby et al, 1994;Lederman et al, 2007;Rimoin et al, 2007]. Cowpox virus is endemic in European wild rodents [Bennett et al, 1997;Chantrey et al, 1999] but rarely causes severe infection in human.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…как следствие, к настоящему времени человеческая популяция практически не имеет коллективного про-тивооспенного иммунитета и является беззащитной не только перед возможным инфицированием други-ми близкородственными ортопоксвирусами, такими как вирусы оспы обезьян (воо) или оспы коров, природным резервуаром которых являются мелкие грызуны, но и перед заражением вно в результате теракта или возникновения вируса в природе путем эволюции зоонозных ортопоксвирусов [39,40]. в последние годы отмечается увеличение числа заре-гистрированных случаев заболевания людей оспой коров [6,7,10,18,22,32], вакциноподобным заболе-ванием [4, 42 ,47, 50] и оспой обезьян [24,33,37,38]. вакцинопрофилактика остается единственным эф-фективным инструментом сдерживания возрастаю-щей угрозы ортопоксвирусных инфекций человека.…”
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