Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2022)

Monkeypox Virus Detection in Different Clinical Specimen Types

  • Maan Hasso,
  • Stephen Perusini,
  • Alireza Eshaghi,
  • Elaine Tang,
  • Romy Olsha,
  • Hanyue Zhang,
  • Evelyn Lau,
  • Ashleigh Sullivan,
  • Kirby Cronin,
  • Seyeon Lee,
  • Janet Obando,
  • Cedric DeLima,
  • Sandeep Nagra,
  • Tom Braukmann,
  • Venkata R. Duvvuri,
  • Melissa Richard-Greenblatt,
  • Antoine Corbeil,
  • Julianne V. Kus,
  • Anna Majury,
  • Samir Patel,
  • Jonathan B. Gubbay

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2812.221160
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 12
pp. 2513 – 2515

Abstract

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A global monkeypox outbreak began in May 2022. Limited data exist on specimen type performance in associated molecular diagnostics. Consequently, a diverse range of specimen sources were collected in the initial weeks of the outbreak in Ontario, Canada. Our clinical evaluation identified skin lesions as the optimal diagnostic specimen source.

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