Bioengineering (Oct 2022)

Current and Perspective Sensing Methods for Monkeypox Virus

  • Ijaz Gul,
  • Changyue Liu,
  • Xi Yuan,
  • Zhicheng Du,
  • Shiyao Zhai,
  • Zhengyang Lei,
  • Qun Chen,
  • Muhammad Akmal Raheem,
  • Qian He,
  • Qiuyue Hu,
  • Chufan Xiao,
  • Zhang Haihui,
  • Runming Wang,
  • Sanyang Han,
  • Ke Du,
  • Dongmei Yu,
  • Can Yang Zhang,
  • Peiwu Qin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9100571
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 10
p. 571

Abstract

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The outbreak of the monkeypox virus (MPXV) in non-endemic countries is an emerging global health threat and may have an economic impact if proactive actions are not taken. As shown by the COVID-19 pandemic, rapid, accurate, and cost-effective virus detection techniques play a pivotal role in disease diagnosis and control. Considering the sudden multicountry MPXV outbreak, a critical evaluation of the MPXV detection approaches would be a timely addition to the endeavors in progress for MPXV control and prevention. Herein, we evaluate the current MPXV detection methods, discuss their pros and cons, and provide recommended solutions to the problems. We review the traditional and emerging nucleic acid detection approaches, immunodiagnostics, whole-particle detection, and imaging-based MPXV detection techniques. The insights provided in this article will help researchers to develop novel techniques for the diagnosis of MPXV.

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