International outbreaks of Monkeypox virus infection with no established travel: A public health concern with significant knowledge gap

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Quality and Patient Safety Department, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
³ Director Research Center, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia; Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: zmemish@yahoo.com.

Jaffar A Al-Tawfiq et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2022 Sep-Oct.

. 2022 Sep-Oct:49:102364.

doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102364. Epub 2022 Jun 1.

¹ Infectious Disease Unit, Specialty Internal Medicine, Quality and Patient Safety Department, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, King Saud University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
³ Director Research Center, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia; Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: zmemish@yahoo.com.

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