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Mpox outbreak in France: epidemiological characteristics and sexual behaviour of cases aged 15 years or older, 2022.
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- Immune dysfunction drives adverse mpox outcomes among people living with human immunodeficiency virus: a systematic review and meta-analysis with CD4-based risk stratification.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Positive predictive value of mpox diagnoses in French emergency departments: a retrospective validation study using the OSCOUR network.BMJ open · 2026Observational
- Acceptability of public health information and prevention measures by gay men, bisexual men and men who have sex with men during the French Mpox outbreak in 2022: the ANRS-MPX-SHS cross-sectional survey.Sexually transmitted infections · 2026Article
- First Comprehensive Global Bibliometric Analysis of Monkeypox Virus Research Landscape From 1976 to 2025.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2026Article
- Lessons for medical countermeasure development from unforeseen outbreaks.Emerging microbes & infections · 2025Review
- Determinants of mpox vaccination uptake among MSM during the 2022 outbreak: a single-centre retrospective study at Lyon University Hospital, France.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The impact of the COVID-19 and mpox outbreaks on behaviours associated with HCV infection among MSM: results from the prerandomisation phase of a clinical trial.AIDS (London, England) · 2025Article
- Negotiating Access to Healthcare and Experience of Stigma Among Cisgender Gay Men Diagnosed with Mpox During the 2022 Epidemic in France: A Qualitative Study.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Negotiating Access to Healthcare and Experience of Stigma Among Cisgender Gay Men Diagnosed with Mpox During the 2022 Epidemic in France: A Qualitative Study.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Modelling international spread of clade IIb mpox on the Asian continent.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2025Article
- Orthopoxvirus zoonosis: A potential threat across the Balkan countries.Journal of public health research · 2025Article
- Serological Response to Mpox and Direct Virus Detection in Asymptomatic Patient Prior to the First Diagnosed Case: A Retrospective Study of the 2022 Montpellier Epidemic.Journal of medical virology · 2025Article
- Mpox Cases in Serbia, 2022.Infectious disease reports · 2025Article
- Intentions of healthcare seeking and self-isolation for MPOX among men who have sex with men in China: a national cross-sectional study.Emerging microbes & infections · 2024Article
- Mpox in children and adolescents and contact follow-up in school settings in greater Paris, France, May 2022 to July 2023.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024Article
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Abstract
BackgroundLocally-acquired mpox cases were rarely reported outside Africa until May 2022, when locally-acquired-mpox cases occurred in various European countries.AimWe describe the mpox epidemic in France, including demographic and behavioural changes among a subset of cases, during its course.MethodsData were retrieved from the enhanced national surveillance system until 30 September 2022. Laboratory-confirmed cases tested positive for monkeypox virus or orthopoxviruses by PCR; non-laboratory-confirmed cases had clinical symptoms and an epidemiological link to a laboratory-confirmed case. A subset of ≥ 15-year-old male cases, notified until 1 August, was interviewed for epidemiological, clinical and sexual behaviour information. Association of symptom-onset month with quantitative outcomes was evaluated by t- or Wilcoxon tests, and with binary outcomes, by Pearson's chi-squared or Fisher exact tests.ResultsA total of 4,856 mpox cases were notified, mostly in Île-de-France region (62%; 3,025/4,855). Cases aged ≥ 15 years were predominantly male (97%; 4,668/4,812), with 37 years (range: 15-81) as mean age. Between May and July, among the subset interviewed, mpox cases increased in regions other than Île-de-France, and mean age rose from 35 (range: 21-64) to 38 years (range: 16-75; p = 0.007). Proportions of cases attending men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) meeting venues declined from 60% (55/91) to 46% (164/359; p = 0.012); median number of sexual partners decreased from four (interquartile range (IQR): 1-10) to two (IQR: 1-4; p < 0.001).ConclusionChanges in cases' characteristics during the epidemic, could reflect virus spread from people who were more to less behaviourally vulnerable to mpox between May and July, or MSM reducing numbers of sexual partners as recommended.
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