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. 2023 Feb 8;76(3):e1424-e1427.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac713.

Infectious Proctitis due to Human Mpox

Keerti Gedela  1 , Dayana Da Silva Fontoura  2 , Alex Salam  2 , Gerry Gorman  1 , John Golden  1 , Geraldine O'Hara  2 , Ahmed Elowaidy  3 , Victoria Tittle  1 , Nicolo Girometti  1 , Gary Whitlock  1 , Sheel Patel  1 , Tara Suchak, Diarmuid Nugent  1 , David Asboe  1 , Marta Boffito  1 , Alan McOwan  1
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Infectious Proctitis due to Human Mpox

Keerti Gedela et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

We describe 2 cases of infectious proctitis secondary to human monkeypox in patients presenting with rectal pain. These cases highlight the importance of multidisciplinary management of monkeypox and in expanding case definitions and enabling clinical recognition in patients presenting without skin rash.

Keywords: monkeypox; outbreak; proctitis; sexual health; skin rash.

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Conflict of interest statement

Potential conflicts of interest. D. A. reports consulting fees from VIIV (paid to author during 2022/2023). G. W. reports speaker fees from Gilead and ViiV (within the past 36 months) and participation on Advisory Board for ViiV within the past 36 months (paid to author). M. B. reports research grants to institution for HIV research from ViiV, Gilead, MSD, and for COVID research from Roche, Valneva, Novavax; consulting fees and payment or honoraria for lectures, presentations, speakers’ bureaus, manuscript writing or educational events from HIV and COVID from GSK, ViiV, Gilead, Janssen, MSD, Cipla, and Mylan. N. G. reports consulting fee from ViiV in 2020 (paid to author). All other authors report no potential conflicts. All authors have submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Conflicts that the editors consider relevant to the content of the manuscript have been disclosed.