Abstract
This paper presents clinical and epidemiological information on a patient with smallpox-like disease, from whom a monkeypox-like virus was isolated. The patient was the first recognized human monkeypox case in medical history.
MeSH terms
- Adolescent
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Female
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Poxviridae Infections / diagnosis*
- Smallpox / diagnosis
- Smallpox / prevention & control
- Vaccination