Virology: Current Research

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Publications

• Mini Review   
  Introduction to Monkeypox (MPOX) Virus Infection, Symptoms and Treatments
  Author(s): Osama O. Ibrahim*
  
  Monkeypox is zoonotic disease caused by the Monkeypox (MPOV) virus infect primate, rodents, and human. This enveloped virus is a large ovalshaped with double-stranded DNA, belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus of the family Poxviridae. Monkeypox disease was first detected in 1970s in Central and West Africa. The infection usually spread from person-to-person contact or from the anhelation of infected person's lesions. These lesions found on the skin, eyes, mouth, throat, genitalia, and rectum. Monkeypox disease symptoms developed after the infection within five to twenty days incubation period and include rashes on faces that spread later across the body. Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assay is the only reliable method to identify monkeypox virus infection. There are no special treatments for MPOX virus infection, but due to genetic similarity between M.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2736-657X.2024.8.231

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