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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2022

The monkeypox diagnosis, treatments and prevention: A review.

Saadullah Khattak, Mohd Ahmar Rauf, Yasir Ali, Muhammad Tufail Yousaf, Zhihui Liu, Dong-Dong Wu, Xin-Ying Ji

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Saadullah KhattakHenan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China.
Mohd Ahmar RaufSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States.
Yasir AliNational Center for Bioinformatics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Muhammad Tufail YousafInstitute of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan.
Zhihui LiuDepartment of General Practice, Henan Provincial Peoples Hospital, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
Dong-Dong WuHenan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China.
Xin-Ying JiHenan International Joint Laboratory for Nuclear Protein Regulation, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China.
Henan University · CNGomal University · PKHenan Provincial People's Hospital · CNQuaid-i-Azam University · PKWayne State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The world is currently dealing with a second viral outbreak, monkeypox, which has the potential to become an epidemic after the COVID-19 pandemic. People who reside in or close to forest might be exposed indirectly or at a low level, resulting in subclinical disease. However, the disease has lately emerged in shipped African wild mice in the United States. Smallpox can cause similar signs and symptoms to monkeypox, such as malaise, fever, flu-like signs, headache, distinctive rash, and back pain. Because Smallpox has been eliminated, similar symptoms in a monkeypox endemic zone should be treated cautiously. Monkeypox is transmitted to humans primarily via interaction with diseased animals. Infection through inoculation via interaction with skin or scratches and mucosal lesions on the animals is conceivable significantly once the skin barrier is disrupted by scratches, bites, or other disturbances or trauma. Even though it is clinically unclear from other pox-like infections, laboratory diagnosis is essential. There is no approved treatment for human monkeypox virus infection, however, smallpox vaccination can defend counter to the disease. Human sensitivity to monkeypox virus infection has grown after mass vaccination was discontinued in the 1980s. Infection may be prevented by reducing interaction with sick patients or animals and reducing respiratory exposure among people who are infected.

Indexed as

COVID-19Mpox, MonkeypoxSmallpoxAnimalsCOVID-19 TestingHumansMiceMonkeypox virusPandemicsUnited Statesdiagnosisepidemiologymonkeypox (MPX)public health concernstreatment

Identifiers

PMID36814644
PMCPMC9939471
OpenAlexW4319322279

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