Emerging diseases-the monkeypox epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Diseases, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; Unit of Infectious Diseases, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: anu.kantele@hus.fi.
² Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
³ Departments of Virology and Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; Department of Virology and Immunology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.

Editorial

A Kantele et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2016 Aug.

. 2016 Aug;22(8):658-9.

doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.07.004. Epub 2016 Jul 9.

¹ Infectious Diseases, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; Unit of Infectious Diseases, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: anu.kantele@hus.fi.
² Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
³ Departments of Virology and Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; Department of Virology and Immunology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.

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