ReviewPLoS pathogens2022
Human monkeypox: A review of the literature.
Review in PLoS pathogens, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Mpox Airborne Transmission: A Systematic Review.Reviews in medical virology · 2026Pooled it
- Reddit Discussions During the 2022 Mpox Outbreak: Observational Analysis of Sentiment, Topics, and Audience Engagement.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Severe mpox in an immunocompromised, non-traveller South African male.Southern African journal of infectious diseases · 2026Article
- First imported cases of MPXV Clade Ib from Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.Communications medicine · 2025Article
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- Re-emergence and clinical management of monkeypox: insights into viral biology, therapeutics, and vaccination.Molecular biology reports · 2025Review
- Psychological crisis and emergency response in public health emergencies: a case study of the Mpox epidemic.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- LAMPOX: A Portable and Rapid Molecular Diagnostic Assay for the Epidemic Clade IIb Mpox Virus Detection.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The monkeypox virus-host interplays.Cell insight · 2024Review
- First imported Cases of MPXV Clade Ib in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Implications for Global Surveillance and Transmission Dynamics.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Essential and multifunctional mpox virus E5 helicase-primase in double and single hexamer.Science advances · 2024Article
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- Characterization of whole genomes from recently emerging Mpox cases in several regions of China, 2023.Science China. Life sciences · 2024Article
- Strengthening Africa's response to Mpox (monkeypox): insights from historical outbreaks and the present global spread.Science in One Health · 2024Review
- Assessing the Anxiety and Knowledge about Monkeypox Virus: A Cross-Sectional Cohort Study.Cureus · 2023Article
- Mpox Panic, Infodemic, and Stigmatization of the Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual Community: Geospatial Analysis, Topic Modeling, and Sentiment Analysis of a Large, Multilingual Social Media Database.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Virus Identification for Monkeypox in Human Seminal Fluid Samples: A Systematic Review.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Review
- The study of human monkeypox disease in 2022 using the epidemic models: herd immunity and the basic reproduction number case.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- Colliding Pandemics and CoViD-19.Bioinformation · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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Abstract
Monkeypox (MPX) has recently made international headlines for the rapid and simultaneous progression of the disease across the world. This review aims at summarizing the literature available as well as describing the evolution of the disease as it pertains to the cases today along with potential treatments and infection control strategies. To date, more than 76 countries have reported cases in more than 12,261 people. Before this, MPX was a rare zoonotic disease confined to endemic areas in Western and Central Africa with sporadic outbreaks namely in the United States, associated with the import of wild animals from Ghana. However, during the current outbreak, human-to-human transmission has become the primary mode of transmission, raising concerns for unaccounted community spread. Most of these patients did not travel to the endemic areas of Africa, suggesting possible previously underdetected community transmission. Observations from emergent cases have reported that the manifestations of the disease were sometimes atypical from what has been previously described. Young men who have sex with men seem to be the population most vulnerable to infection. Though the disease is currently perceived to be mild in its clinical course, questions that remain unclear and warrant further investigation include potential of humans harboring a genital reservoir of the virus and the possibility of airborne transmission, which has implications for infection control and health of the community at large.
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