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Editorial
. 2022 Jun 15;21(1):26.
doi: 10.1186/s12941-022-00518-2.

Monkeypox outbreaks during COVID-19 pandemic: are we looking at an independent phenomenon or an overlapping pandemic?

Ramadan Abdelmoez Farahat  1 , Abdelaziz Abdelaal  2   3 , Jaffer Shah  4   5 , Sherief Ghozy  6   7 , Ranjit Sah  8 , D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana  9   10 , Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales  11   12   13   14 , Timothy D McHugh  15 , Hakan Leblebicioglu  16
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Editorial

Monkeypox outbreaks during COVID-19 pandemic: are we looking at an independent phenomenon or an overlapping pandemic?

Ramadan Abdelmoez Farahat et al. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob. .
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Conflict of interest statement

AJRM is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief and TM and HL are Editors-in-Chief of the Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials.

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Transmission routes associated with monkeypox infection
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