| update: multistate outbreak of monkeypox--illinois, indiana, kansas, missouri, ohio, and wisconsin, 2003. | cdc and state and local health departments continue to investigate cases of monkeypox among persons who had contact with wild or exotic mammalian pets or persons with monkeypox. this report updates epidemiologic, laboratory, and smallpox vaccine use data for u.s. cases. | 2003 | 12836628 |
| update: multistate outbreak of monkeypox--illinois, indiana, kansas, missouri, ohio, and wisconsin, 2003. | cdc and state and local health departments continue to investigate cases of monkeypox among persons who had contact with wild or exotic mammalian pets or persons with monkeypox. this report updates epidemiologic, laboratory, and smallpox vaccine use data for u.s. cases, and summarizes the laboratory-based evidence implicating imported african rodents as the probable source of the outbreak. | 2003 | 12844080 |
| update: multistate outbreak of monkeypox--illinois, indiana, kansas, missouri, ohio, and wisconsin, 2003. | cdc and state and local health departments continue to investigate cases of monkeypox among persons in the united states who had contact with wild or exotic mammalian pets or with persons with monkeypox. this report updates results of the epidemiologic investigation, provides information on the use of smallpox vaccine during the outbreak, and summarizes the animal tracing activities to identify the origin and subsequent distribution of infected animals. | 2003 | 12855947 |
| optimization of peptide-based elisa for serological diagnostics: a retrospective study of human monkeypox infection. | abstract although smallpox has been eradicated, other diseases caused by virulent orthopoxviruses such as monkeypox virus (mpv) remain endemic in remote areas of western and central sub-saharan africa, and represent a potential biothreat due to international travel and/or inadvertent exposure. unfortunately, extensive antigenic cross-reactivity among orthopoxviruses presents a challenge to serological diagnosis. we previously reported a 20mer peptide-based elisa that identified recent mpv infe ... | 2012 | 22217169 |