Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2019)

Diagnosis of Imported Monkeypox, Israel, 2018

  • Noam Erez,
  • Hagit Achdout,
  • Elad Milrot,
  • Yuval Schwartz,
  • Yonit Wiener-Well,
  • Nir Paran,
  • Boaz Politi,
  • Hadas Tamir,
  • Tomer Israely,
  • Shay Weiss,
  • Adi Beth-Din,
  • Ohad Shifman,
  • Ofir Israeli,
  • Shmuel Yitzhaki,
  • Shmuel C. Shapira,
  • Sharon Melamed,
  • Eli Schwartz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2505.190076
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 5
pp. 980 – 983

Abstract

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We report a case of monkeypox in a man who returned from Nigeria to Israel in 2018. Virus was detected in pustule swabs by transmission electron microscopy and PCR and confirmed by immunofluorescence assay, tissue culture, and ELISA. The West Africa monkeypox outbreak calls for increased awareness by public health authorities worldwide.

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