Human monkeypox coinfections; lessons from available cases - Correspondence

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¹ Department of Microbiology and Virology, School of Medicine, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran.
² Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. Electronic address: keikham971@mums.ac.ir.

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Mohsen Karbalaei et al. Int J Surg. 2022 Aug.

. 2022 Aug:104:106734.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2022.106734. Epub 2022 Jun 24.

¹ Department of Microbiology and Virology, School of Medicine, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran.
² Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran; Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. Electronic address: keikham971@mums.ac.ir.

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