ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2023
Is Mpox a Sexually Transmitted Infection? Why Narrowing the Scope of This Disease May Be Harmful.
Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Routes of transmission of mpox by virus clade and geographic distribution: A systematic review.Journal of infection and public health · 2025Pooled it
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in men having sex with men (MSM): a systematic review.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy of modified-vaccinia Ankara vaccine as pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis against monkeypox sexual transmission in non-human primate model.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Correction approaches and hashtag framing in addressing Mpox misinformation on Instagram.Health education research · 2025Article
- Disparity in Mpox awareness and vaccine hesitancy: a cross-sectional study of 3,483 university students in Northwest China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Community Involvement in an Outbreak-One Year on for Mpox.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024Article
- Characterizing Indicators of Engagement in HIV-Associated Healthcare and Clinical Outcomes among People with HIV and Mpox in Washington, DC: A Nested Case-Control Study of the DC Cohort.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Characteristics of Mpox Infections in Louisiana in the 2022 Outbreak.AIDS research and human retroviruses · 2023Review
- Misinformation and Public Health Messaging in the Early Stages of the Mpox Outbreak: Mapping the Twitter Narrative With Deep Learning.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Update on Mpox: a brief narrative review.Le infezioni in medicina · 2023Review
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Abstract
The 2022 multinational mpox outbreak has been characterized by unprecedented spread among men who have sex with men outside of sub-Saharan Africa. Close contact during sex and intimacy has been well established as a key pathway for human-to-human transmission in the current outbreak. Discussions on whether to assign this illness as a sexually transmitted infection (STI) have been ongoing since the initiation of the outbreak. While sexual contact certainly appears to be a primary means of spread, classifying mpox as an STI is inaccurate based on its known transmission dynamics, yields potential unintended consequences, and ignores the historical impact of the disease in Central and West Africa. Rather than focusing our energy on disease categorization, more effort should be placed on destigmatizing this illness and empowering communities at risk to protect themselves from mpox.
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