Concomitant, consecutive, self-obtained facemask and swab samples from exhaled breath, pox lesions, nasopharynx and the face in patients recovering from mpox - A longitudinal sampling study

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¹ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Department of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom; NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom; Li Ka Shing Institute for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Electronic address: dp440@leicester.ac.uk.
² Research and Evaluation, UK Health Security Agency, Porton Down, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
⁴ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Department of Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
⁵ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Department of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom; NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
⁷ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom; Department of Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.

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Daniel Pan et al. J Infect. 2023 Nov.

. 2023 Nov;87(5):459-461.

doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2023.05.007. Epub 2023 May 9.

¹ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Department of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom; NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom; Li Ka Shing Institute for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Electronic address: dp440@leicester.ac.uk.
² Research and Evaluation, UK Health Security Agency, Porton Down, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
⁴ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Department of Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
⁵ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Department of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom; NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
⁷ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, United Kingdom; Department of Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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