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Comment
. 2022 Nov:107:106974.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2022.106974. Epub 2022 Oct 31.

Monkeypox: A global threat to domestic and wild animals - Correspondence

K C Nikhil  1 , Jigyasa Rana, Shailesh Kumar Patel, Aditya Agrawal, Kumar Govil, Alok Singh, Megha Katare Pandey, Dhruv Nitinkumar Desai, Sita Prasad Tiwari
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Monkeypox: A global threat to domestic and wild animals - Correspondence

K C Nikhil et al. Int J Surg. 2022 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: Containment; Dog; Monkeypox; Wild animals.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Epidemiology of monkeypox. The figure was created with BioRender.com.
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Transmission, Clinical signs and Containment strategies of monkeypox. The figure was created with BioRender.com.
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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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