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. 2022 Nov;22(11):2699-2703.
doi: 10.1111/ajt.16681.

Health care personnel exposures to subsequently laboratory-confirmed monkeypox patients - Colorado, 2022

Kristen E Marshall  1   2 , Marlee Barton  1 , Janell Nichols  1 , Marie A de Perio  3 , David T Kuhar  3 , Emily Spence-Davizon  1 , Meghan Barnes  1 , Rachel K Herlihy  1 , Christopher A Czaja  1 ; Colorado Healthcare Personnel Monitoring Team
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Health care personnel exposures to subsequently laboratory-confirmed monkeypox patients - Colorado, 2022

Kristen E Marshall et al. Am J Transplant. 2022 Nov.

Abstract

This article describes 313 healthcare providers in Colorado who were exposed to patients with monkeypox and had low rates of personal protective equipment use and postexposure prophylaxis vaccination. Despite this, through 21 days of follow-up, none of the healthcare providers had acquired monkeypox infection, suggesting the risk for acquiring monkeypox among U.S. healthcare providers is very low. This is reassuring data for organ procurement teams who are exposed to potential organ donors with possible monkeypox infection or undiagnosed skin lesions.

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Personal protective equipment use by health care personnel* exposed to patients with monkeypox, by facility type — Colorado, May 1–July 31, 2022. ED, emergency department; PPE, personal protective equipment; STI, sexually transmitted infection. *Number of health care personnel by facility type: community health and STI (25), hospitals and EDs (175), and urgent or primary care (113).
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