Growing shreds of evidence for monkeypox to be a sexually transmitted infection

Fatma A Amer^{1

2}, Noha M Hammad^{1

2}, Ahmed Ashraf Wegdan^{2

3}, Nissreen E ElBadawy^{1

2}, Pasquale Pagliano⁴, Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig, Egypt.
² Viral Infection Working Group/International Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
³ Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
⁵ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira 660001, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁶ Program of Master in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima 150142, Peru.

Editorial

Fatma A Amer et al. Infez Med. 2022.

. 2022 Sep 1;30(3):323-327.

doi: 10.53854/liim-3003-1. eCollection 2022.

Fatma A Amer^{1

2}, Noha M Hammad^{1

2}, Ahmed Ashraf Wegdan^{2

3}, Nissreen E ElBadawy^{1

2}, Pasquale Pagliano⁴, Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales^{5

6}

¹ Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig, Egypt.
² Viral Infection Working Group/International Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
³ Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
⁵ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira 660001, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁶ Program of Master in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima 150142, Peru.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest None.

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