In 2022,just before the COVID-19 pandemic ended,many countries noticed a viral monkeypox outbreak.Monkeypox virus,a zoonotic pathogen,causes a febrile illness in humans and resembles smallpox.Prevention strategies enc...
The largest monkeypox virus(MPXV)outbreak of the 21st century occurred in 2022,which caused epidemics in many countries.According to WHO,physical contact with infected persons,contaminated surfaces,or affected animals...
In May 2022,the world witnessed the re-emergence of the zoonotic disease monkeypox.While this was not the first epidemic of this disease,what differentiated the outbreak was the rapid global spread and increase of cas...
Background:The main objective of the present study was to compare the diagnostic performance of the commercial LightMix Modular Monkeypox Virus(MPXV)qPCR(TIB Molbiol,Germany)assay with the in-house non-variola orthopo...
supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project on Important Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control(2018ZX10734404);National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFC2602200);the National Science and Technology Infrastructure of China(Project No.National Pathogen Resource Center NPRC-32).
On September 16,2022,the first imported monkeypox case was reported in the Chinese Mainland.Laboratory tests including nucleic acid detection were carried out in Chongqing Nan’an Centre for Disease Control and Preven...
supported by a grant from the National Pathogen Resource Collection Center(NPRC-32);the SKLID Development Grant(2011SKLID104).
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,the unexpected outbreak and worldwide spread of monkeypox has gained global attention.As of June 22,2022,there were 3340 confirmed cases of monkeypox globally,which is the lar...