Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2022)

Monkeypox Virus Transmission to Healthcare Worker through Needlestick Injury, Brazil

  • Laína Bubach Carvalho,
  • Luciana V.B. Casadio,
  • Matheus Polly,
  • Ana Catharina Nastri,
  • Anna Cláudia Turdo,
  • Raissa H. de Araujo Eliodoro,
  • Ester Cerdeira Sabino,
  • Anna Sara Levin,
  • Adriana Coracini Tonacio de Proença,
  • Hermes Ryoiti Higashino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2811.221323
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 11
pp. 2334 – 2336

Abstract

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We describe monkeypox virus (MPXV) transmission from a patient to a healthcare worker through needlestick injury. A lesion appeared at the inoculation site 5 days after injury. Blood tested MPXV-positive by PCR before symptoms worsened; blood remained MPXV-positive at discharge 19 days after symptom onset. Postexposure prophylaxis could prevent potential MPXV bloodborne transmission.

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