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Comment
. 2022 Oct:106:106949.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2022.106949. Epub 2022 Sep 26.

Recent first report of human-to-dog transmission of Monkeypox virus emphasizes an urgent need of enhancing surveillance and strengthen further explorative research to reveal its real magnitude of reverse zoonosis from other animals including pets as like that happened with SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 pandemic - Correspondence

Ranjit Sah  1 , Vivek Hada  2 , Aroop Mohanty  3 , Najim Z Alshahrani  4 , Sandip Chakraborty  5 , Manojit Bhattacharya  6 , Chiranjib Chakraborty  7 , Kuldeep Dhama  8
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Comment

Recent first report of human-to-dog transmission of Monkeypox virus emphasizes an urgent need of enhancing surveillance and strengthen further explorative research to reveal its real magnitude of reverse zoonosis from other animals including pets as like that happened with SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 pandemic - Correspondence

Ranjit Sah et al. Int J Surg. 2022 Oct.
No abstract available

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An overview on zoonosis, animal spillover and reverse zoonosis of SARS-CoV-2 and MPXV.
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Comment on

  • Evidence of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox virus.
    Seang S, Burrel S, Todesco E, Leducq V, Monsel G, Le Pluart D, Cordevant C, Pourcher V, Palich R. Seang S, et al. Lancet. 2022 Aug 27;400(10353):658-659. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01487-8. Epub 2022 Aug 10. Lancet. 2022. PMID: 35963267 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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