Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences (Jul 2022)

Human Monkeypox

  • Payam Tabarsi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.30476/ijms.2022.48507
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 47, no. 4
pp. 289 – 290

Abstract

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Human monkeypox virus (MPXV) is a double-stranded DNA virus of the Orthopoxvirus genus of the Poxviridae family. Two genetic clades of the monkeypox virus have been identified: West African and Central African.

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